Transcript The Dictators

Note quiz!
1) What was the Dawes Plan?
2) When did the stock market crash? (Exact
Date)
3) What does the FDIC stand for?
4) Which president was blamed for the
depression?
5) What were the 3 “R”’s of the new deal?
6) What year was the social security act?
 Bonus: What is prohibition and what was
FDR’s dog’s name?
Silent Reading
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 Chapter 24
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(Roaring Twenties and Great Depression)
The Dictators and Fascism
Mussolini, Stalin, and Franco
7 Slides (In yellow don’t need to
write)
Democracy Unstable
By 1939 only 2 European states were
democratic – France and U.K.
 Totalitarian State – Government that aims
to control the political, economical, social,
intellectual, and cultural lives of its people.
 Single party dominated
 Mass propaganda
 Cultures of Fear
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The Soviet Union
Economic disaster in Russia
 Famine, 1920-1922
 Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP)
 Allowed privatization of small scale
agriculture and business
 1922- Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
officially created (USSR)
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Stalin
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Lenin dies in 1924 - Power
struggle
Rapid Industrialization,
spread Communism
Josef Stalin – used his
position in the Party to take
control
Eliminated the Bolsheviks
The Five Year Plan
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Ends NEP, Launches Five Year Plan in 1928
Maximum production of goods – armaments, oil,
steel
Law limited freedoms of workers
Collectivization – private farms eliminated;
government consumed all lands, peasants
worked it
The Purges
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Removal of opposition
8 million Russians arrested, imprisoned, or executed.
Italy
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First Fascist Movement
Fascism – government’s elevation
of the needs of the state over the
needs of the people
Economic depression after WWI
Benito Mussolini
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Leader of the Black Shirts
Violent, broke up strikes
Ideas inspired Adolf Hitler
Mussolini Takes Power
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Threatened to topple government in Rome of not
given more power
Mussolini made prime minister in 1922
Censorship – prohibited criticism of Church,
monarch, or state
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Control of media outlets
Outlawed political Opposition
Established Secret Police
Spain
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Francisco Franco
Franco becomes
dictator – more
authoritarian
Copied Mussolini’s
Model
Map
Pg 759
 Color in the Authoritarian, Fascist and
Democratic countries
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On back of map:
 # 1 geography skills pg. 759 *ALSO*
 # 1and 2 pg. 762 Geography skills.
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Collecting this
Read the article on collectivism on page
765.
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 # 1 geography skills pg. 759
 # 1 and 2 pg. 762 Geography skills.
 (5 questions total)
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Silent Reading
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10 min.
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What is your favorite cartoon and why?
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What is propaganda?
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What is a political cartoon?
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political cartoon, is an illustration
containing a political or social message,
that usually relates to current events or
personalities.
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 Pg 757 1-5
 I am collecting this and we will
be adding a few questions to it
later
Pg. 764
 # 2,4,5,6,7
 Use your notes and book to answer the
questions!
 Add these to your earlier questions from
pg. 757
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Mussolini
Stalin
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Animal Farm
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http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~sbennet3/mea
d/lessonplans/animalfarm.htm
Culture of the Inter-War West
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1920 – First concert transmitted by Radio
Movies
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Full length feature films
Silent
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Propaganda
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Germany – The Triumph of the Will
“Talkies”
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Italy – Quo Vadis
U.S. – Birth of a Nation
The Jazz Singer
Gone With the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Literature
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James Joyce – Ulysses, Dubliners
Herman Hesse – Siddhartha, Steppenwolf
Art - Salvador Dali – The
Persistence of Memory, 1931