1. Today’s Goal: CHECK YOURSELF @ THE END OF CLASS! Explain why the totalitarian states formed after WWI

2. Tell me what you know: WWI  How did it end?

3. Review of WWI:  Nov 1918 – Germany surrendered to Allies  1919: Versailles Peace Agreement  Britain France US  Russia and Germany NOT EVEN THERE!!!!!!!  Treaty of Versailles:  Germany was the target  Provide an example

4. What did post WWII world look like? Gov’t Democracy & Freedom TOTALITARIANISM Gov’t in which a single party of leader controls: Economic Social & Cultural Lives of the people

5. TIME OUT:  WHAT WOULD IT FEEL LIKE TO LIVE UNDER A TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT? Gov’t that controls the: SOCIAL ECONOMIC & CULTURAL

6. RUSSIA.... this is why it's important to pay attention in history class! Stalin Communist Party Goal: Make Soviet Union an industrial power State Run Farms Great Terror

7. Italy Mad about land Post war depression Mussolini Fascist Party/Black Shirts Outlawed political parties Controlled the Press Created a secret police

8. Mussolini Sample

9. Germany After WWI: Weimar Republic Why did it fail?

10. Hitler Nazi Party National Socialist Worker’s Party Goal: Unite Germany  “Reich” What was life like? How did he convince the German people?

11. HW Review: the BIG idea  Japan ALSO experimented with Democracy!  Great Depression = World Wide  Land = money = power!  Manchuria  Target the capital “Rape of Nanjing”