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World War II – Origins
Chapter 11 Lesson 1
Dictators
• Benito Mussolini
– Country: ITALY
– “Il Duce”
– Fascist
• Joseph Stalin
– USSR
– Dictator
– Gov’t: SOCIALISM
– Collectivization
– Gulag
• Hideki Tojo
– Japan
– Title: Minister of War, then Prime Minister
– “Rape of Nanking”
• Adolf Hitler
– Germany
– Title: Der Fuhrer (“the Leader”)
– Nazi Party
– Aryan Race
Hitler makes demands…• …to expand military
• …to build an air force
• …to unite all German‐speaking regions
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• Anschluss– Uniting Austria to Germany
• Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
• Invaded Poland – Sep. 1, 1939WWII began
• Invaded France
• Blitzkrieg over Britain– Brit Royal Air Force retaliated and bombed Berlin
Non‐Aggression Pact • Nazi‐Soviet Pact
– Hitler and Stalin
– **not a binding alliance
Alliances • Axis Powers
– Germany
– Italy
– Japan