1. Rise of Dictators

2. Benito Mussolini
Founded Italy's Fascist Party.

3. Vladimir Lenin
Founded Communist governments through the Russian Empire.
Territories renamed “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” in 1922.

4. Joseph Stalin Dictator of Soviet Union in 1927. Industrialized Russia.
If resisted Communist policies you were killed. (Killed 7-10 million.)

5. Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany.
Leader of the Nazi Party.

6. Believed Germans were the “Master Race”.
Felt Jews were center of Germany’s problems

7. Emperor Hirohito Emperor of Japan 1921-1989.
Supported invasion of Manchuria and China.

8. Supported the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Surrendered to the U.S. to end WWII.
Transformed Japan into the 2nd economic super power

9. Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain

10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President of United States
remained neutral in WWII

11. Declared War after attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941.

12. Dictator
An Absolute Ruler

13. Fascism
Nation is more important than individual.

14. Uses violence, techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition.

15. Fascism features

16. Nationalism
Hostility to democracy
Cult of the leader

17. love of symbols (swastika), uniforms, parades, army discipline.

18. Nazi Party
National Socialist German worker’s party.

19. Crooked Cross or Swastika.
Used as symbol of German expansion and anti-Semitism

20. Anti-Semitism
Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews or Judaism.