1. Key Term to Understand:
Fascist
Extreme militarism +
Extreme nationalism
Question: What is militarism and what is nationalism?

2. Adolf Hitler Fascist Totalitarian Dictator
His Political Party
What led Hitler to power (1933)
His book
Nearby countries he took over
How he started WWII

3. BACK Nazis—Nationalist Socialist Party
Great Depression, hatred for Treaty of Versailles, anti-Semitism
Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”)
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland
Invasion of Poland (1939)

4. Reflection
Why would Germans be willing to turn to a leader that was extremely militaristic and extremely nationalistic?

5. Joseph Stalin Fascist Totalitarian Dictator—U.S.S.R.
His Goal
Five Year Plans
Collectivization
Secret Police
Great Purge
Who he makes deal with

6. BACK Make USSR a world power Plans for industrializing USSR
Peasants “collected” on government run farms (no private property)
“KGB”—spies on citizens
Stalin executes anyone who might oppose him (genocide)
Hitler—agree not to attack each other

7. Reflection
Why would the Soviets be willing to turn to a leader that was extremely militaristic and extremely nationalistic?

8. Benito Mussolini Fascist Totalitarian Dictator
His political party
Led Mussolini to power? (1922)
Goal for Italy
Invasion
League of Nations?

9. BACK
Fascist Party
Hatred for Treaty of Versailles, Depression in Italy
Restore glory of Roman Empire (North Africa and Balkans)
Ethiopia (1935) to increase empire
Did nothing to stop him

10. Reflection
Why would Italians be willing to turn to a leader that was extremely militaristic and extremely nationalistic?

11. General Tojo Fascist Totalitarian Dictator -- Japan
Japanese Emperor
Real Leader
Major Goal
Policies
Needs
Invasion
Opposed by

12. BACK Hirohito (weak) General Hideki Tojo Rule all of Asia
Industrialization and militarism
Raw materials (oil)
Korea (1905), Manchuria, and China (1937)
US cuts off the oil supply (when Japan invades rest of China, President Roosevelt cuts off oil to Japan.)

13. Reflection
Why would the Japanese be willing to turn to a leader that was extremely militaristic and extremely nationalistic?