1. Dictators Turn to Totalitarianism
TEKS: 2B, 2C, 7A, 29H
Dictators Turn to Totalitarianism

2. Totalitarianism More extreme than just a dictator Secret police
Ultimate control
Uses terror and spies amongst citizens
No rights, no political rivals, no alternative ideology
Govt. controls radio and propaganda

3. Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union
Post Lenin
Collective farms
10 million deaths
Great Terror
Purge of traitors in Communist party
(killed or labor camps)
“There are no bad collective farms under communism, there are only bad managers.”

4. Benito Mussolini - Italy
Fascist Party 1919
National pride
Black Shirts
Anti socialist, anti communist
Italian King Emmanuel III
March on Rome 1922
Weak, let BM become Prime Minister
Mussolini aka I’l Duce
Took over everything

5. How did Stalin and Mussolini compare with one another?

6. Adolf Hitler - Germany Failed at art WWI veteran
Leader of National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) 1921
Rebelled
Mein Kampf in jail
Problems with Germany
Against communist and Jewish
Lebensraum
1933 Chancellor of Germany
Economic policies recovered Germany
Der Fuhrer

7. Militarists Gain Control of Japan
Great Depression → Military takeover
Wanted expansion throughout Asia
Natural resources and markets
Manchuria
Rape of Nanjing
No dictator
Dictatorship-like military

8. Appeasement Granting potential enemy’s wishes to avoid conflict
France, Britain & U.S.
Wanted to avoid second World War
Soviets seen as real threat
Didn’t work
more power to dictators
Led to Anschluss (Austria added to Hitler’s Reich)