1. BR: What causes a person to change over time? *Explain a situation when you have known someone to be a control freak and excessively become overbearing.

2. Dictators Threaten the World  Failure of World War I Peace Settlement - Germany a. Treaty of Versailles (War Guilt Clause) b. Loss of land - Russia a. Resents loss of land - Dictators come to power as democracies fail

3. Joseph Stalin  1922 Vladimir Lenin- Soviet Union  1924 Joseph Stalin takes over - Collectives- government owned farms - Creates 2 nd largest industrial power - State sponsored famine - Purges (8- 13 million killed)  Totalitarian government exerts almost complete control over people

4. Italian Fascism  Fascism- stresses nationalism, needs of state above individual  Italy - Inflation produces strikes- some communist led- Middle/ Upper class affected - Benito Mussolini- plays on fears of economic collapse, communism a. appointed head of government, established totalitarian state

5. Nazi Germany  Adolph Hitler- leader of Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party  Mein Kempf – Hitler’s book on extreme nationalism  Goals - Unite all German speaking people - Racial purification - Lebensraum- Living Space

6. Bell Ringer  Complete page 686- Neutrality Acts  Analyzing Visuals Questions 1 & 2

7. Nazi Germany  1932- 6 million unemployed in Germany  Became strongest political party; Hitler named Chancellor  Dismantles Wiemar Republic; Third Reich

8. Militaristic Japan  1931- Military leaders seize Manchuria - League of Nations condemns - Japan quits League - Militarist take control of government

9. Failures of the League  1933- Hitler quits League- 1935 begins rearmament, troops to Rhineland  1935- Mussolini tries to invade Ethiopia * The League of Nations does nothing*

10. Civil War in Spain  1936- Gen. Francisco Franco rebels against Spanish republic- Spanish Civil War  Hitler & Mussolini back Franco; Stalin aids opposition  Rome-Berlin Axis created  Franco wins becomes dictator

12. REVIEW  Who was the leader of the following countries leading up to WWII? Italy- “IL DUCE” Benito Mussolini Germany- NAZI Adolph Hitler Japan- Militarist & Emperor Hirohito, Tojo Spain- Francisco Franco Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin United States- FDR