1. Period 2, 5, & 6
We will examine the totalitarian leaders who rise to power and their goals for their nation.
Go over homework
Totalitarian Leaders
Hitler’s Rise to Power
Finish Who, What, and Where

2. Chapter 16.1 Italy Leader – Benito Mussolini
Rises to power in Wants to restore Italy to its former position as a world power.
Believes in military expansion and is anticommunist

3. Joseph Stalin “man of steel”
Soviet Union (Russia)
Took over Soviet Union in Wanted to establish a model communist state.
Abolished all privately owned farms, replaced with government run farms.

4. Francisco Franco
Spain
Led a Fascist Rebel Army to victory in Spain.
Gains complete control of the country in 1939.
Germany supplies Franco with weapons during the Spanish Civil War.

5. Hideki Tojo
Japan
Became Japan’s Prime Minister in 1941
Japan wanted more living space
Invaded China and were condemned by the League of Nations
Japan quits the League of Nations

6. Becomes leader of Germany in 1933 Writes down ideas in Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Becomes leader of Germany in 1933
Writes down ideas in Mein Kampf
Nazis believe in using military to…
Unite Germans
Carryout racial purification
Establish Lebensraum – Living space
Anticomunist