Key Term to Understand:

Fascist

Extreme militarism+

Extreme nationalism

Question: What is militarism and what is nationalism?

Adolf HitlerFascist Totalitarian Dictator

1. His Political Party

2. What led Hitler to power (1933)

3. His book

4. Nearby countries he took over

5. How he started WWII

BACK

1. Nazis—Nationalist Socialist Party

2. Great Depression, hatred for Treaty of Versailles, anti-Semitism

3. Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”)

4. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland

5. Invasion of Poland (1939)

Reflection

Why would Germans be willing to turn to a leader that was extremely

militaristic and extremely nationalistic?

Joseph StalinFascist Totalitarian Dictator—U.S.S.R.

1. His Goal

2. Five Year Plans

3. Collectivization

4. Secret Police

5. Great Purge

6. Who he makes deal with

BACK

1. Make USSR a world power

2. Plans for industrializing USSR

3. Peasants “collected” on government run farms (no private property)

4. “KGB”—spies on citizens

5. Stalin executes anyone who might oppose him (genocide)

6. Hitler—agree not to attack each other

Reflection

Why would the Soviets be willing to turn to a leader that was extremely militaristic and

extremely nationalistic?

Benito MussoliniFascist Totalitarian Dictator

1. His political party

2. Led Mussolini to power? (1922)

3. Goal for Italy

4. Invasion

5. League of Nations?

BACK

1. Fascist Party

2. Hatred for Treaty of Versailles, Depression in Italy

3. Restore glory of Roman Empire (North Africa and Balkans)

4. Ethiopia (1935) to increase empire

5. Did nothing to stop him

Reflection

Why would Italians be willing to turn to a leader that was extremely militaristic and extremely nationalistic?

General TojoFascist Totalitarian Dictator -- Japan

1. Japanese Emperor

2. Real Leader

3. Major Goal

4. Policies

5. Needs

6. Invasion

7. Opposed by

BACK

1. Hirohito (weak)

2. General Hideki Tojo

3. Rule all of Asia

4. Industrialization and militarism

5. Raw materials (oil)

6. Korea (1905), Manchuria, and China (1937)

7. US cuts off the oil supply (when Japan invades rest of China, President Roosevelt cuts off oil to Japan.)

Reflection

Why would the Japanese be willing to turn to a leader that was extremely militaristic and

extremely nationalistic?