1. Agenda The Christmas Truce Warm Up
Discussion: Interwar Period: Italy, Japan and Soviet Union
Primary Source Documentation
HW: Finish Primary Source work

2. What tactics did Hitler use to gain power in Germany?
Warm Up
What tactics did Hitler use to gain power in Germany?

4. Mussolini, Hirohito, and Stalin

5. Definition of Fascism
Radical, authoritarian nationalism characterized by dictatorship and total control of industry and economy
Authoritarianism, militarism, and a one-ruler philosophy dominated this governmental structure.

6. Italy Benito Mussolini and Blackshirts rise to power in 1922.
Fascists win victory through intimidation and violence.
Mussolini ruled with violence and repression.
He wants resurgence of Roman Empire, invades Ethiopia

7. Rise of Japan Still anti-western
Industrialization allows Japan to have strongest military in the East
Emperor Hirohito rules totalitarian country.
Imperial General: Hideki Tojo
Seeking Japanese Empire
Manchuria, Korea, and large parts of China under their control.

9. USSR and Stalin
Dictatorship grows through death, fear, and oppression.
Creates Secret Police
Great Purge:
Mass executions of former Lenin supporters
Labeled “Enemies of the state”

10. Five Year Plans Plans to fix economy and industrialize USSR
5 Year Agriculture –
Collective Agriculture.
No more privately owned farms
5 Year Industry
1500 new factories constructed for automobile and tractor manufacturing.
Mobilizes war industry

11. Non-Aggression Pact (1939)
Hitler and Stalin meet
Sign agreement not to attack each other or allies
Will not interfere with the growth and actions of either country
Divide central European countries after conquest