1. Get out your homework to be stamped!
2/7 & 2/8
Get out your homework to be stamped!
What were two causes of the Great Depression?
How do you think the Great Depression helped dictators in Europe and around the world come to power?
Bell Ringer # 7
Causes of Great Depression: Bank Failures, Overproduction, Overspending, Stock Market Crash

2. Objectives
Describe how the Great Depression/Treaty of Versailles lead to the rise of totalitarianism
List the differences between Fascism and Communism

3. Fascism Rises in Europe

4. Government control over every aspect of public and private life
Totalitarianism
Government control over every aspect of public and private life

5. Communism All means of production are owned by the state
Private property does not exist
All goods and services are shared equally
v. Socialism (not all property is owned by state but by workers

6. Fascism
A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism
Denial of individual rights
Dictatorial one party rule
v. Socialism (not all property is owned by state but by workers

7. Comparing Governments
Fascism
Communism
Page 910

8. Fascism Total Control Emphasizes Extreme loyalty to leader Promise to:
Restore national
pride
Punish those
responsible
Restore economy

9. Fascism Rises from the Great Depression
Fascist Govt.
take control
Weak/Failed Democracies
Loss of Faith in Govt.
16 democratic reversals…argentina in south america to france, japan, spain
High Inflation
German Unemployment Rises

10. Fascist Leaders Rise to Power (p 910-913)
Mussolini
3 facts about the leader
Describe their rise to power
List the leaders’ goals
Hitler

11. Fear of Communist revolution (Russia)
Benito Mussolini
(Italy)
Fear of Communist revolution (Russia)
Founded Party in 1919
Violence
Black Shirts

12. Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Served in German Army in WWI
Joined political party to overturn the Treaty of Versailles (also to combat communism)
Brown shirts or storm troopers
Wrote Mein Kampf: “My Struggle”
Lebensraum “Living Space” (take other countries)

13. “Propaganda is truly a terrible weapon in the hands of an expert”
A Way to gain power
Traits of Propaganda
Targets Audience
Selective Information
Plays on Emotion
Examples
Games
Radio
Film
INDOCTRINATION
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
In the 1930s in Germany, anti-semitism was all-pervasive, and part of that can be attributed to pop culture. A commercially successful board game for example called “Juden Raus” (Out With The Jews) became a pasttime of German families. Ben Barkow of the world’s oldest holocaust museum, the Wiener Library in London has a copy of the game in their archives and explains to anchor Lisa Mullins.
“Propaganda is truly a terrible weapon in the hands of an expert”
–Hitler 1942
“What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.”
-Hitler

14. “The Ducktators”
Looney Tunes, 1942

15. The Ducktators Who am I? What party do I lead?
What country did I lead?

16. Nazism 1936 Olympic Games

17. 3-2-1 Three things you learned Two things you are unsure about
One question you have