The Democrat and the Dictators

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The Democrat and the Dictators

• The leaders during WWII

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Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)

• Former Italian newspaper man
• Formed the Fascist Party in 1920s
• Took power in Rome in 1922
• Promised to recreate a new Roman Empire
• Called himself Il Duce the Leader

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Fransisco Franco

• Led Fascist Spain 1936-75
• Called himself el Caudillo the Leader
• Took power during the Spanish Civil War (AKA
  dress rehearsal for WWII)
• All major Allied nations took part

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Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)

• Led USSR from 1924-53
• Name means Steel
• Became very paranoid in his rule
• As a result, murdered a lot of his army leaders

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Franklin D Roosevelt (1882-1945)

• Former Sec of the Navy
• Contracted polio in his late 30s and was confined
  to a wheelchair the rest of his life (Warm
  Springs GA)
• Elected President in 1932- promised to pull the
  US out of the Great Depression

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Adolf Hitler (Jan 30, 1933 April 30, 1945)

• Born April 20, 1889 Branau am Inn, Austria
• Father- customs clerk, very strict, used to beat
  Hitler
• Mother- very caring, was also cousin to Hitlers
  dad
• Mother died when Hitler was in his teens

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• Served in the German Army in WWI
• Was gassed at the front and survived
• Joined the NAtionalsoZIalitische Deutscher
  Arbeiters Partei (National Socialist German
  Workers Party NSDAP, or the Nazis) in 1919
• Quickly became its leader

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The Putsch

• 1923- Tried to take over the government by force
  in a failed coup (the Putsch)
• Sentenced to nine months in prison
• While there, he wrote his plans for Europe, Mein
  Kampf (My Struggle)
• More living space Lebensraum for Germans at the
  expense of the East (USSR)

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Hitler comes to Power

• Jan 20, 1933- Hitler is appointed Chancellor of
  Germany (head of government)
• Feb 1933- the Reichstag (Parliament) burns down
  mysteriously
• Hitler takes control of all parts of the German
  government
• Aug 1934- Hitler becomes Fuhrer Leader of
  Germany

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The Third Reich

• 1st Reich- Holy Roman Empire
• 2nd Reich- the Kaiser Reich from WWI
• 3rd Reich- the Nazis

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The road to war

• 1935- Germany retakes Rheinland
• Mar 1938- Germany annexes Austria
• Fall 1938- Germany annexes Sudetenland after and
  agreement with France and England
• Spring 1939- Germany claims the rest of
  Czechoslovakia
• Sept 1, 1939- Germany invades Poland, WWII begins

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