1. Totalitarian Government: Rise of dictators
Ms. Ha
Ch. 16 sec. 1
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2. I. Joseph Stalin (Russia)
A. First Dictator
1. Name: meant
“man of steel”
2. Took control in 1924
3. Goal: “model
communist state”

3. 4. Economic goals:
a. Agriculture
b. Industrial
5. NO private ownership
of farms
6. Collectives: large
government owned
farms

4. 7. “Five-Year Plan”
turn Russia into
great power
8. By 1937: Russia #2
power, only U.S.
was ahead

5. 9. Stalin did it at a terrible cost 10. If Stalin thought you
were a threat, you
were eliminated

6. 11. Murder estimates:
a. Between:
8-13 million people
b. Millions more by
famine (hunger)

7. B. Totalitarian
Government
1. Complete control
over citizens
2. No rights
3. All opposition:
suppressed

8. II. Benito Mussolini (Italy)
A. Second Dictator
1. Fascist Party
2. Fascism:
stressed
nationalism

9. 3. Interests of state
above all else
4. Single strong leader
with small party

10. 5. October 1922,
marched on Rome
6. “Black Shirts”:
supporters in
uniform

11. 7. Many sided
with Mussolini
8. Italian King:
appointed him head
of government

12. 9. “The leader”:
Il Duce
10. He crushed all
opposition.

13. III. Adolf Hitler A. Third Dictator 1. Der Fuhrer-the Leader
2. Nazi Party
3. Powerful speaker
& organizer

14. Hitler: Practicing Speeches/Moves

15. B. Main concepts: Nazi Party
1. Plan of Action
a. Book: Mein Kampf
(my struggle)
b. Basic Nazi beliefs

16. 2. Racial “purification”:
extreme Racism
a. “Aryans”: blond
hair & blue eyes
b. “Master Race”
c. Get rid of all
nonwhites

17. 3. National expansion:
a. Desire for space
b. Even fight for it

18. Why did Nazis gain power?
1. Great Depression
a. War debts
b. Unemployment
2. 6 million unemployed

19. Joined Storm
Troopers:
a. Brown Shirts
b. Hitler’s private
army

20. 4. Many hoped for
any kind of change
5. Hitler was change

21. 6. By 1932: Nazis
the political
party
7. By 1933: Hitler
appointed
chancellor
(prime minister)

22. 8. Immediately got
rid of democratic
Weimar Republic
9. Replaced with Third
Reich or Third
German Empire