The Rise of Dictators

Target

• 1. Identify and describe the dictators that

arose in Europe and Asia

• 2. Determine how each one posed a

threat to peace

What Caused the Rise of

Dictators?

• Treaty of Versailles

• War guilt clause

• War reparations

• Germany’s colonies taken

• Germany’s army regulated

• Inflation

• Conditions ripe for dictators to seize power

Benito Mussolini

• Italy

• El Duce “The Chief”

• “Cult of Personality”

• Fascism (Strong

central government,

dictator)

• “trains run on time”

• Invades Ethiopia

(resources)

Joseph Stalin

• Soviet Union

• “Man of Steel”

• Communist

• 5 year plan –Industrial Giant (#3 in World)

• Totalitarian Government

• The Great Purges

• 13 million dead!

Adolf Hitler• WWI vet

• National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party)

• Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

• Extreme nationalism

• Unite all German speaking people

• Racist

• Aryan= master race (blonde hair, blue eyes)

• Inferior races = jews, slavs, non whites

Adolf Hitler

• Lebensraum

• Took advantage of a

struggling Germany

(Depression)

• 1932 Nazis won many

seats in the elections

• 1933- Hitler elected

as Chancellor

Hitler’s Speech - 1933

Hitler

• 1933- Burning of the

“Reich Chancellery”

• Blames Jews

• Suspended Constitution

becomes dictator

• “The Fuhrer”

Militarists in Japan

• Living Space

• Invaded Manchuria

• League of Nations

condemned action

• Japan quit

Francisco Franco

• Spain

• Fascism

• Winner of a brutal civil

war

U.S. Reaction?

• U.S. is neutral

• Why?

• WWI

• 70% of Americans

believed WWI was a

mistake

• Isolationism