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

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

Fascism Rises in Europe

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

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

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

Comparing Governments Fascism Communism Page 910

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

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

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

Fear of Communist revolution (Russia) Benito Mussolini (Italy) Fear of Communist revolution (Russia) Founded Party in 1919 Violence Black Shirts http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=DBEEFC2F-2E16-4241-B2CE-53EF7EA501D7&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

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)

“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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15881261 “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. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/10/AR2009021003582_2.html?sid=ST2009021003687 “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

“The Ducktators” Looney Tunes, 1942

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

Nazism 1936 Olympic Games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcFbVn3BeVQ&feature=PlayList&p=DBA0F04ABD665A99&index=0

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