Transcript Rise of Dictators

Rise of Dictators
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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)
• Prime minister
(But Victor Emmanuel retained title King)
• Recognized Catholicism as the
state religion
• Role of Women- have children
and raise them to love the state
Control:
• 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
• Get rid of political parties
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:
Purge of western ideas
“Imperial Rule Assistance
Association”
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