1. Dictators Threaten World Peace
Unit 8

2. Nationalism Threatens Europe & Asia
The democracies created in Europe after WWI collapsed and dictators took over
Why did they collapse?
Nationalism – extreme pride for one’s own country
Russia, Italy, Germany

3. Russia Lenin established a Communist government in 1922
When Lenin died Stalin took over in 1924
Stalin Issued 5-year plans which led to Russia economic miracle
State owned and operated factories and farmland
Russia became the worlds 3rd leading industrial power
Costs
8-13 Million people died
Lost of civil liberties
Secret police

4. Italy Benito Mussolini
Fascism – government controlled by a strong central government & a dictator
First won seats in parliament
Then marched on Rome

5. Germany
Adolf Hitler
After WWI Hitler joined a workers union called the Nazi Party
He worked his way up to leader of that party
Great Depression was a gift to Germans
Nazis came to power
Hitler established the “Third Reich”
Disbands the German democracy
Tells Germans that they need more “living space”

6. Japan Hirohito Invades China for more “living space”
League of Nations tries to take action
Japan leaves the League
Germany follows & notices the league’s failure to enforce its rules

7. Aggression Begins Hitler invades the Rhineland Signs a pact with Italy
Italy invades Ethiopia
Haile Seassie, “It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”

8. Isolationism US did not want to get involved Neutrality Acts
Outlawed the sale of arms or the loaning of money to nations at war
Roosevelt wanted to get involved
Newspapers launched protests and reports
Claiming that US had been pulled into WWI by bankers and industrialists
Letters flooded the White House in protest