1. The Rise of Totalitarian Leadership in Europe

2. Review  What was President Herbert Hoover’s contribution to the Global Depression of the 1930s?

3. Review  What is the relationship between the hatred of Communism in the 1920s and the increased acceptability of Communism during the Great Depression in America?

5. Totalitarianism  Create your own definition

6. Totalitarianism  Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed

7. Totalitarianism  Make a list of characteristics in which you think would be associated with this type of government.  What specific things does the leader have control of?

9. Economic Troubles  Economic trouble in Italy, the Soviet Union, and Germany Italy- 26% unemployment Germany- 30%+ unemployment, weak government Soviet Union- Revolution, new leadership

10. Economic Troubles  “Desperate times call for desperate measures”  Someone to take control of the situation Benito Mussolini: Italy Joseph Stalin: Soviet Union Adolf Hitler: Germany

11. Question…  How could an event like the Great Depression lead to the rise of totalitarian governments?