1. Welcome Back!

2. What do we know about WWII?
On your own, use the expo marker to record information you already know about WWII on your desk (terms, people, anything)
You will have 1 minute

3. What do we know about WWII?
In your pods, compare your terms! Add new ideas if needed!
You will have 3 minutes
Then, we will put all of our collective terms on butcher paper. Mark off terms that have already been said.

4. WWII Dictators: Who are the major players?

5. Research the major dictators
Your group is going to research the major dictators during WWII
Hideki Tojo, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin
USE LEGIT SOURCES! You will verbally present to the class
You are researching the following information:
What country did they lead?
How did they get to power?
Any major events that occurred that got them into power or that happened while they were in power?
What is their style of dictatorship?
(Democracy, communism, socialism, totalitarianism, military, etc.)
What were they like in their powerful position?
Were they mean? Loved? Hated? Admired?
Did they have a special police force? If so what was the name?

6. Totalitarianism More extreme than just a dictator Secret police
Ultimate control over public and private sectors
Uses terror and spies amongst citizens
No rights, no political rivals, no alternative ideology
Govt. controls radio and propaganda

7. Hideki Tojo What country did he lead? How did he get to power?
Any major events that occurred that got him into power or that happened while he was in power?
What is his style of government?
What was he like in his powerful position? Give examples.
Did he have a special police force? If so what was the name?

8. Militarists Gain Control of Japan
Great Depression → Military takeover
Wanted expansion throughout Asia
Natural resources and markets
Manchuria
Rape of Nanjing
No dictator
Dictatorship-like military
military leader, Hideki Tojo

9. Benito Mussolini What country did he lead? How did he get to power?
Any major events that occurred that got him into power or that happened while he was in power?
What is his style of government?
What was he like in his powerful position? Give examples.
Did he have a special police force? If so what was the name?

10. Benito Mussolini - Italy
Fascist Party 1919
National pride
Black Shirts
Italian King Emmanuel III
March on Rome 1922
Weak, let BM become Prime Minister
Mussolini took over everything

11. Adolf Hitler What country did he lead? How did he get to power?
Any major events that occurred that got him into power or that happened while he was in power?
What is his style of government?
What was he like in his powerful position? Give examples.
Did he have a special police force? If so what was the name?

12. Adolf Hitler - Germany Failed at art WWI veteran
Leader of National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) 1921
Rebelled
Mein Kampf in jail
Problems with Germany
Against communist and Jewish
Lebensraum (living space)
1933 Chancellor of Germany
Economic policies recovered Germany
Used Nationalism
Der Fuhrer

13. Joseph Stalin What country did he lead? How did he get to power?
Any major events that occurred that got him into power or that happened while he was in power?
What is his style of government?
What was he like in his powerful position? Give examples.
Did he have a special police force? If so what was the name?

14. Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union
Post Lenin
Collective farms
10 million deaths
Great Terror
Purge of traitors in Communist party
(killed or labor camps)
“There are no bad collective farms under communism, there are only bad managers.”

15. How did Stalin and Mussolini compare with one another?

16. Be ready for a warm up! Can be in your notes

17. Matching Military government, led the Rape of Nanjing Adolf Hitler
Fascist leader, helped Germany out of the Great Depression
Fascist leader, led the March on Rome
Communist leader, successor to Lenin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hideki Tojo
Joseph Stalin

18. Other Leaders during WWII
Franklin Roosevelt
still president of USA
USA still in Great Depression
court packing - totalitarian?
Chamberlain Churchill
Prime Minister’s of Britain
Chamberlain seen as ineffective leader during war (gives Czechoslovakia to Germany) in 1939
Churchill leads 1940

19. Appeasement Granting potential enemy’s wishes to avoid conflict
France, Britain & U.S.
Wanted to avoid second World War
Does not work!
more power to dictators
Led to Anschluss (Austria added to Hitler’s Reich)
What are some modern day examples of appeasement?