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