1. Mussolini Intro to WW2 Stalin’s Totalitarian State
- Lenin had set up a communist gov’t in the _____________________
- He dies in 1924 & Joseph Stalin gains power & ruled as a totalitarian dictator
- ____________________________________: a single party controls the gov’t and every aspect of people’s lives. Citizens must obey the gov’t without ____________. ____________________________of the gov’t is severely punished
- Examples: Stalin ordered peasants to hand over land to gov’t-run farms. He __________________ political enemies.
Fascist Italy
- Totalitarian leaders also came to power in ____________& ________________
- These dictators were Fascists
- _______________________: political system that is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism & blind loyalty to the state
Communists support = _________________
Fascists support = ________________________
Mussolini
- In 1922 Benito Mussolini & his Fascist party seized power in _________________
- Many Italians were annoyed that the Versailles Treaty (ending _______) did NOT grant Italy territories it wanted
- Italy’s economy was unstable & there was fear growing of a ___________________________________
- Mussolini outlawed all political parties except his own once he was in power
- Controlled the press & banned criticism of the gov’t
- Critics were _________________________________
- School children recited, “____________________________________!”
Conquering Ethiopia
1930s Mussolini used foreign conquest to distract Italians from economic problems
He promised Italians he would restore the “greatness of Rome” & embarked on a program of military aggression
__________________________: warlike act by one country against another without just cause
Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935 & conquered them (_________________________________________)
Nazi Germany
- Adolf Hitler brought the National Socialist German Workers’ Party to power
- Nazis: ____________________________________________________________________
- Germans resented the treaty of Versailles as it blamed ____________________for WW1 & left them with heavy costs

2. Good Ol’ Euro Map 1919-1929 to Keep Handy!