Rise of Fascism and Militarism in Europe and Japan

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Rise of Fascism and Militarism in Europe and Japan

• 1919-1936

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What is Fascism?

• Policies glorify the state over the individual
  and are destructive to basic human rights (not
  communist)

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Benito Mussolini il Duce

• Problems facing Italy
• Rise of Blackshirts
• Fascism
• His reforms?
• Desire for a New Rome

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Adolf Hitler

• Weimar Republic
• Economic problems lead to unrest
• Nazism and Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht 1938
• Nuremberg Laws 1935

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Joseph Stalin

• Five Year Plan
• Forced collectivization
• Kulaks
• Gulag
• Secret Police
• The Great Purge

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Japans Militarism

• Changes after WWI
• Economic Unrest
• Attempts to quickly modernize, militarize
• 1931 Manchuria and Leagues reaction?
• Influence of Japans history on the attitudes of
  military/political leaders?