1. THE ERA OF THE DICTATORS

2. Totalitarianism: Total government control Paranoia and Propaganda
A distortion of nationalism
Individual rights suppressed
A policy of aggression

3. Total control over culture
The use of a scapegoat
Extreme police power
A permanent state of crisis
Capable of genocide and mass murder

8. ITALY
Upset with Paris Peace Treaties: did not get the territory they wanted (Italian Irredenta)
Economic Depression
Fear of Communism
Returning soldiers w/o benefits
Fear of worker’s strikes

10. GERMANY
Upset with the Paris Peace Treaties: DIKTAT and WAR GUILT CLAUSE
Fear of Communism
Economic Depression
High reparation payments
Occupation of their industrial heartlands: Ruhr and Saar
Extreme Nationalism

11. Failures of the Government
Fear of Unions and strikes

13. Hitler gained ‘democratic power’ in 1933.
Re-armed
Occupied Rhineland
Took back Saar and Ruhr
United with Austria (1938)
Abolished all other political parties
Pushed ‘Aryan-master race’ doctrine

17. Initiated push to isolate undesirables Jews, Gypsies (Romas), Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the physically and mentally ill.
Nuremberg Laws: 1935
1938: Kristallnacht
Built infrastructure
Invaded the Sudetenland (1938)
Took the rest of Czechoslovakia (March, 1939)
Invaded Poland (Sept. 1939)

19. What did the world do?
Nothing: APPEASEMENT!!!

20. WHY? Isolationism: A European War Anti-Semitic Fear Misplaced Trust
No organized military power (League of Nations)