1. Welcome Back! Grab both a printer paper and a packet.
Find a seat (with little distractions)
Take your printer paper and fold it so you have four squares and a diamond in the middle. Label inside the diamond: Warm Ups 1/8/19

2. World War II
A World Affair

3. WWII Dictators Foldable
Fold your paper in half lengthwise “hamburger style”
Cut it into fourths, so you have a 4 flaps
On the front, write the dictator’s name to go with his picture
On the inside:
1) write the dictator’s nickname & country. Draw a picture to help you remember him
2) fill in the key information provided by this ppt

4. Joseph Stalin “Man of Steel”
Country
USSR
Political Party Communist Party
Goal
Make USSR a world power
Policies
5 Year Plans
industrialize the country
Government run farms
Use secret police to spy on citizens
Execute anyone who might be against him

5. Rise of Dictators Joseph Stalin Became leader of Soviet Union in 1924.
Wanted to create a model Communist state. Used ruthless methods to force his people to work, millions of Russians died.
By 1937, Soviet Union world’s second leading industrial power.
U.S.S.R. a totalitarian state.

6. Benito Mussolini “Il Duce” (the Leader)
Country
Italy
Political Party
Fascist Party
Goal Restore the glory of Roman Empire
Country He Took Over Ethiopia (1935)

7. Rise of Dictators Benito Mussolini
Seized power in Italy in as leader of Fascist Party.
Mussolini hoped to restore Italy to the glory of the old Roman Empire (territory in Africa & Mediterranean, power, etc.)
Italy became an totalitarian state.
1935 – Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in attempt to build his new Roman empire.

8. Adolf Hitler “der Führer”
Country Germany
Political Party Nazi—National Socialist German Workers Party
Book Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”)
How He Started WWII Invasion of Poland (1939)

9. Rise of Dictators Adolf Hitler
After WWI, German economy terrible. Treaty of Versailles seen as unfair to Germany.
Germany desperate – Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
Hitler leader of Nazi Party. Wanted to unite all German-speaking people in a great German empire.
Hitler wanted pure “Aryan” race and German expansion.
Germany became a totalitarian state.
1938 – Hitler annexed Austria & Czechoslovakia

10. Hideki Tojo Country Japan His Needs
Raw materials for industry and military
Countries Invaded
Korea (1905), Manchuria & China
Opposed by
US cut off oil supply when Japan invaded China

11. Rise of Dictators Hideki Tojo
Led Japanese military. Believed Japan needed to expand its empire.
Invaded province of China known as Manchuria (rich in natural resources) and Indochina (now Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos).
Emperor Hirohito of Japan only a powerless figure head.