1. Who’s Who of WWII???
September 8, 2014

2. WWI: “War to End All Wars” Left bitterness, anger, & revenge
WWI + Great Depression =
Totalitarian Dictatorships in Germany, Italy, Japan, & USSR
Totalitarian State
Gov’t in which one party/ leader holds TOTAL control
Strong, charismatic leader head of gov’t
Police, spies, & terror to enforce
Gov’t controls media/ propaganda
Use schools to spread ideology to children
Censor intellectuals/ rivals
Types of Totalitarian Governments***
Communist – Gov’t control everything (no private property)
Classless society (no rich/ no poor) – SOCIALISM
Fascist – Glorify country (private property allowed)
Nazi – Just like Fascism (but RACE issue)
Military Dictatorships – GROUP of military leaders make decisions

3. Germany Following the Great War/ Rise of Hitler
September 10, 2015

4. Adolf Hitler Bio Born in Austria Dropped out of high school at age 16
Rejected TWICE from Academy of Art school/ Lived on streets
Painted post cards
GREAT speaker
Speeches against Jews in male homeless shelters
Moved to Munich right before WWI
Joined German Army
Won Iron Cross

5. After WWI…
Germany a democracy, BUT…
Economic troubles
HIGH inflation ($$$)
Then…Great Depression
Anti-Democratic Parties
National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI)
Not socialist (socialism: no private property)
All about promoting GERMANY
Nothing more important than the country
Supreme Race - Aryan
Leader of the NAZI Party - Adolf Hitler (1921)

6. 1. Unemployment 2. Homelessness 3. Hunger 1918: WWI ends
Hitler bitter/ angry
1919: German Worker’s Party formed
1920: Renamed NAZI party
1921: Head of NAZI Party
1923: Rebellion to overthrow gov’t
Arrested
Writes Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
Blueprint of his hatreds & plans for world domination/ ANTI-SEMITIC
How does Hitler increase Nazi membership?
Offer free meals to hear speak
1. Unemployment
2. Homelessness
3. Hunger
RISE IN NAZI PARTY/ GIVE GERMANS HOPE

7. 1927: Hitler released from prison/ Nazi membership down
Hitler realizes – NO REVOLUTION (need to work way up)
German Gov’t
Reichstag (elected officials – like our CONGRESS)
President (elected by the PEOPLE)
Chancellor (elected by the REICHSTAG)
Hitler’s GOAL: Get Nazi majority in Reichstag, so ____________.
1929: U.S. Depression GOES GLOBAL
Germany slow on war payments
France takes RHINELAND (industrial sector in Western Germany)
Hitler doing NUMEROUS Nazi meetings (6 per night)
Depression HELPS gain members
SA (Storm Troopers) – Hitler’s private military
Protect Hitler at rallies
SS (Hitler’s Elite guards)
At least 5’10”
Series of tests to prove Aryanism (family tree to 1726)
Agree to obey Hitler blindly (no remorse/ sympathy)

8. 1932: Hitler gains German citizenship
January 30, 1933: NAZI Party VERY powerful
President makes Hitler Chancellor of Germany
February 27, 1933: German Reichstag building burns to ground
President declares STATE of EMERGENCY
Article 48: Reichstag gives Hitler FULL legislative power
Hitler can introduce ANY law (without Reichstag)
August 1934: German President dies
1935: Hitler makes self Chancellor & President of Germany
Combines office and calls self “Fuhrer” (leader)
Rules WITHOUT Reichstag
Hitler promises Germans that Germany will be GREAT AGAIN
Hitler IMMEDIATELY:
Rearms & expands Germany
Against League of Nations
Rebuilds Infrastructure (Roads/ Highways/ etc.)
ENDS DEPRESSION

9. Germans LOVE Hitler
Jobs, $$$, cars
Brainwashed/ propaganda
Control press/ Hitler Youth
Terrify into Silence/ Secret Police
Russia v. USSR
Russia: largest country in world
1917: Russia exits WWI early/ Revolution
Turns communist
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – U.S.S.R. (1919 – 1989)
Vladimir Lenin (leader)
Civil Wars
Starvation/ Famine (millions die)
1924: Lenin dies
Joseph Stalin takes over
Gov’t controlled ECONOMY
Redistribute land (Equal share for EVERYONE/ Gov’t control)

10. 2. High production goals for farms AND factories
Resistance = labor camps
Great Terror: Millions of Soviets died by resisting or not producing enough
BAD…but Economy fixed
TIME “Man of the Year” TWICE