Fascism/ Nazism

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Fascism/ Nazism Totalitarism

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Fascism

• Extreme Militarism
• Extreme Nationalism
• Loyalty to state and obedience to its leader ?
  supreme rule
• One-party rule / dictator
• Denied individual rights
• Believed each class had its own place function
  (hate Communists!)

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Nazism

• German brand of fascism.
• National Socialist German Workers Party (aka
  Nazi).
• More of a practice than a form of government.
• Extreme Nationalism.

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Totalitarianism

• Political Govt system with complete centralized
  control ? command economy
• People totally subjected to state/authority
• No freedom or privacy
• Strong military enforcement to lead country

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Communism

• Loyalty to state obedience to leader ? supreme
  rule
• One-party rule / dictator
• Denied individual rights
• Believed in dictatorship of a working class (hate
  fascists!)

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Benito Mussolini - ItalyFascist Totalitarian
Dictator

• Italians angry because territory was not gained
  during Treaty of Versailles.
• Unemployment up, taxes up trade down Civil
  unrest
• Organized the Fascist Party Wanted to stop the
  Communist Socialist Revolutionaries
• Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of new
  government.

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Benito Mussolini - Italy Fascist Totalitarian
Dictator

• Promised to revive Italys economy military
• 1925 Mussolini known as Il Duce.
  (eel-DOO-chay)
• Censored press, restricts voting, has secret
  police brings economy under state control.
• Children taught to obey strict military
  discipline.

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Adolf Hitler - Germany Fascist Totalitarian
Dictator

• Encouraged territorial expansion of Germany lost
  in the Treaty of Versailles.
• Wanted to strengthen industry and military.
• Hitler seemed to provide solutions to Germanys
  problems.
• 1933 became Chancellor of Germany eventually
  der Fuhrer

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Adolf Hitler - Germany Fascist Totalitarian
Dictator

• NAZI National Socialist German Workers Party
• Suspended civil rights, destroyed communists,
  ended political economic freedom.
• Created brutal system of terror
• SS troops (secret police)
• The Gestapo

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Joseph Stalin - USSR Fascist Totalitarian
Dictator-U.S.S.R

• 1901 Joined the Social Democratic Labor Party.
• Helped to organize industrial resistance to
  Tsarism.
• In 1924 After Lenins death, Stalin took over
  the New Economic Party.
• His Goal Make USSR a world power

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Joseph Stalin - USSR Fascist Totalitarian
Dictator-U.S.S.R

• Planned to industrialize the USSR (Union of
  Soviet Socialist Republics)
• Secret police KGB spied on citizens executes
  anyone who might oppose him (genocide).
• He makes a deal with Hitler to not attack each
  other ? non-aggression pact

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General Hideki Tojo - Japan Fascist Totalitarian
Dictator-Japan

• Japanese Emperor was Taisho (weak).
• General Hideki Tojo was the real leader.
• Major goal was to rule all of Asia.
• Policy Industrialization Militarism
• Japan is in need of raw materials (oil)

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General Hideki Tojo - Japan Fascist Totalitarian
Dictator-Japan

• Invaded Korea (1905), Manchuria China (1937)
• Challenged League of Nations and withdrew.
• League of Nations has no power to condemn for
  invasion
• When Japan invades the rest of China, President
  Roosevelt cuts off oil supply to Japan.

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Causes of World War II

• http//www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory
  /worldwariicauses/

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Major Leaders
Adolf Hitler Nazi Germany
Benito Mussolini Italy
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Major Leaders
Hideki Tojo Japanese Prime Minister
Winston Churchill British Prime Minister
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Major Leaders
Joseph Stalin Russian Leader
Franklin Delano Roosevelt US President