Aim: How did dictators take away peoples freedoms

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• Aim How did dictators take away peoples
  freedoms?
• Do Now Go Over DBQ on the Great Depression

Dictator- a ruler who has complete power over a
country
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Group Work

• In groups of four identify the dictators who
  ruled Italy, Germany, the USSR how Japan was
  ruled each member of the group should answer the
  following questions about their dictator.
• 1- What country did he rule over
• 2-What political system did he rule under
• 3-How did he treat the people
• 4-How did he come to power

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Joseph Stalin

• Ruled in a totalitarian state- a single party
  that controls the government every aspect of
  peoples lives.
• Set up a five years plan to modernize industry
  farming in the USSR

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Benito Mussolini

• Fascist- a political system in which the
  government is seen as more important then the
  people.
• He united Italians over their anger of not
  gaining the territory they wanted after WWI
  their fear of Communist take over

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Adolf Hitler

• Took advantage of public anger over the Treaty of
  Versailles.
• Accused Jews of causing Germanys defeat in WWI
• His Nazi party gained control he became
  chancellor in 1933 took all government power.

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Japan

• Did not have a single dictator, a group of
  military rulers gained control.
• In 1931 Japan conquered Manchuria
• 1937-38 they invaded China killing 360,000
  Chinese soldiers 100,000 civilians.

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• Aim How did Fascist Dictators gain control of
  Europe?
• Do Now Handout Dictatorship

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• The Road to WWII
• WWI was supposed to be the war to end all wars.
  Instead, it released more suffering and hatred
  among the people of Europe. The depression of
  the 1930s only made it worse. Some people came
  forward with ideologies (grand ideas) which they
  claimed would solve all the worlds problems.

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• I. Communist Ideology (Russia)
• A. Karl Marx, Nikolai Lenin, Joseph Stalin
  supported Communism.
• B. Communism was based on nationalization
  (converting from private to government ownership)
• C. Wealth is distributed among all.
• D. Those who opposed Stalin were shot or
  jailed.
• E. Stalin turned Communism into a totalitarian
  ideology (method of government that had total
  control over the people)

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• II. Fascist Ideology (Italy)
• A. Created by Benito Mussolini
• B. Idea that weak democratic government (govt
  by the ppl.) should be replaced by a single
  dictator.
• C. Communism (Red Scare) and helped Mussolini
  rise to power b/c he promised to crush Communism
  protect the right of private property.

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• D. Once in power, Mussolini turned Italy into a
  totalitarian dictatorship
• 1. No elections
• 2. All political parties were outlawed
• 3. Newspapers, radio stations, even school
  teachers were order to repeat government
  propaganda (spread ideas for a cause)
• 4. Yes to capitalism ( private ownership of
  property but controls placed of factories
  businesses)
• E. Mussolini was often referred to as Il Duce
  Nazi Fascism (Germany)

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• Aim What is Hitler's Plan to Rebuild Germany?
• Do Now Who does the man in the Middle Represent?

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• A. After WWI, Germans were bitter over the Treaty
  of Versailles (Germany had to take the blame and
  pay reparations for damages caused in WWI). They
  began to fear communism and unemployment due to
  Depression in the 30s. Adolph Hitler saw this as
  an opportunity for his success.
• B. Hitler preached Germans as the master race
  because of ethnocentrism (belief your culture is
  superior) Germans became more proud of their
  culture and heritage.

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• C. Hitler became head of the Nazi Party which
  appealed nationalistic feelings in Germans.
• D. One in power, Hitler began to run the country
  according to his own ideology (Nazi Fascism)
• E. Hitler produced guns, tanks war materials
  which provided jobs to all Germans.

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• F. The big lie that Hitler told the Germans was
  that they were the master race and that Jews were
  inferior. People began to believe this was true.
• G. Hitlers secret police, called the Gestapo,
  arrested people who criticized him. He was able
  to control the German people this way.
• H. Hitler gave orders to get rid of inferior
  Jews
• They were rounded up and shipped to concentration
  camps
• Genocide (planned murder of racial/culture
  groups) occurred. The killing of the Jewish
  people was called the Holocaust.
• The Jewish people were scapegoats for the
  problems of Germany.

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Italy Invading Ethiopia

• Aggression- any warlike act by one country
  against another w/out just cause.
• 1st step to Rebuild the Roman Empire, Mussolini
  invaded Ethiopia in North Africa in 1935.
• The Emperor of Ethiopia called on the League of
  Nations for help. The league did not help
  proved they were weak.

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Aim What is Appeasement ? Do Now Reading From
Number the Stars Answers questions 1 2

• The Axis Powers
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

• The Allied Powers
• Britain
• France
• Russia (later)
• US (later)

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• Appeasement- giving into the demands of an
  aggressive leader
• At first, Britain and France gave into Japans,
  Italys, Germanys demands, not attacking them
  when they attacked other countries. This policy
  of appeasement did not work.

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• Hitler attacked Poland. Some countries in the
  League of Nations formed the Allied Powers and
  declared war on Germany.
• The US Russia declared neutrality, not taking
  sides when the war broke out
• When the US realized that Britain needed help, it
  made

• Changes to its policy of neutrality. It helped
  the Allies through the Lend Lease Program. This
  program allowed the US to lend war supplies to
  the Allies without getting involved in the war
• Russia tried to stay out of the war until Hitler
  attacked it.

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• Who is the man on the left? Who is the man on the
  right? Why have they come together?

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• Aim Why does the US enter WWII?
• Do Now Political cartoon

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• Germans used blitzkrieg or lighting war with old
  rifles and cavalry. Blitzkrieg describes the
  quick attacks by Germany
• Japan used Kamikaze tactics where pilots would
  crash planes into targets to make sure each
  target was destroyed.

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• Japan wanted to destroy a large American fleet at
  Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.
• On Dec. 7, 1941 Japan launched a secret attack on
  Pearl Harbor, 19 American Ships were damaged, 200
  planes 2,400 people were killed
• The US then declared war on Japan

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• During WWII over 15 million American men women
  served in the military
• factories shifted from making consumer goods to
  making guns, ships, aircraft.
• The more material made for the war the less that
  was available for Americans to buy.
• The government rationed limited the amount of
  certain goods Americans could buy. Americans had
  to use rationed coupons to purchase goods.

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• WWII end the Great Depression Unemployment
  decreased minorities women found jobs were
  they had been rejected before.