Transcript Rise of Dictators

Rise of Dictators
Why did these
totalitarian regimes
gain power after World War I?
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Big Idea: Economic problems after WWI
cause Totalitarian leaders to gain power
and ultimately will lead to WWII!
Totalitarian governments control their
citizens & retain control with the
following methods:
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1. single leader, demand blind obedience
2. control the economy
3. police spies & terror tactics
4.control the media (use propaganda to
indoctrinate)
• 5. use school to spread ideology to children
• 6. censorship of art, books, intellectuals with
dissenting opinions
Rise of Totalitarian Regimes
A. In a Totalitarian country, individual rights are not viewed as important as the
needs of the nation
Fascist Dictatorship
(Germany, Italy)
Communist Dictatorship
(USSR)
Government in
which there are no
social classes, to
create equality and
government
controls all aspects
of production.
Totalitarianism
Fascism: military
government with based
on racism & nationalism
with strong support from
the business community
Military Dictatorship
(Japan)
Opposition is
suppressed.. violent
Mussolini – Il Duce (eel DOO chay)
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First Fascist state
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Recognized Catholicism as the state religion
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Role of Women- have children and raise
them to love the state
Make government work efficiently (get trains
running on time)
Save Roman ruins, put money to salvage
Coliseum
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Bring back glory of Roman Empire
Control:
• Black shirts- child youth organizations to
support fascist ideology.
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OVRA (Organization for Vigilance and Repression
of Anti-Fascism) Secret Police force
* Propaganda “Mussolini is always right”
Adolf Hitler – Fuhrer (FYUR uhr) leader
• Chancellor
• Policy of Anti-Semitism
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National Socialist German Workers’ Party
or Nazi
• Third Reich
• Role of women- have
children and raise them
to love the state
Control:
• Schutzstaffeln or SS
• Gestapo- secret police
• Get rid of political parties
“friends”
Joseph Stalin “man of steel”
• Five-year plan: to industrialize
• Collectivization policy
• Role of women- Promoted
equal rights, divorce & work
Control:
Great Purge- get rid of opponents
Cheka- secret police
Gulag- work camps
General Hideki Tojo...slowly takes power
away from Emperor Hirohito
•Industrialization
• Expansion/imperialism
•Invades Manchuria, China,
Korea
•Wants Southeast Asia
•Wants Siberia (Russia)- makes
a pact with Germany
View of womenMethod of Control:
•Drop pamphlets on countries telling
them to surrender
•Purge of western ideas
“Imperial Rule Assistance
Association”
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Process:
• make a propaganda poster & a Wanted
poster
it should be persuasive...
if I were a citizen of the country it should make me feel my
leader is good/competent/strong etc..... your persuasion may
use pride, fear, terror, compassion, etc..