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World War II
Rise of Dictatorships
Europe and Asia
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EuropeAfter World War I After World War II
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• For many nations, WWI peace had brought not prosperity but revolution fueled by
economic depression and struggle.• The postwar years brought the rise of powerful dictators driven by the belief in
nationalism.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9180688@N04/1277162065/
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• Nationalism is the loyalty to one’s country above all else – and dreams of
territorial expansion.
http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/hitler.html
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• Germans saw nothing fair in the Versailles Treaty that blamed them for starting the war.
• Nor did they find security in a settlement that stripped them of their overseas colonies and
border territories.
http://judicial-inc.biz/Versaille_Treaty.htm
Leaders of France, England, and the United States decidingthe fate of Germany during theTreaty of Versailles.
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• Germany was expected to pay off huge war debts (reparations) while dealing with
widespread poverty.• By 1923, an inflating economy made a five-
million German mark worth less than a penny. Here children build blocks with
stacks of useless German marks.
German currency being sold as fuel for stoves and furnaces.
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• The new democratic governments that emerged in Europe after WWI floundered.
Without a democratic tradition, people turned to authoritarian leaders to solve their
economic and social problems.• The new democracies collapsed, and
dictators were able to seize power.
V. Lenin of Russiahttp://www.alevieten.com/news/index.php?Archive=78
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• In Russia, hopes for democracy gave way to civil war, resulting in the
establishment of a communist state, officially called the Soviet Union.
http://ntap.k12.ca.us/whs/projects/history/stalin.html
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• After Russian revolutionary leader V.I. Lenin died in 1924, Joseph Stalin took control of the country. Stalin focused
on creating a communist state.
http://www.marxists.org/portugues/dicionario/verbetes/s/stalin.htm
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• Stalin made agricultural and industrial growth the prime economic goals of the
Soviet Union.• Stalin abolished all privately owned farms
and replaced them with collectives (large government-owned farms, each worked by
hundreds of families.
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• Stalin moved to transform the Soviet Union from a backward rural nation into a great
industrial power. • All economic activity was placed under
government management.• By 1937, the Soviet Union had become the
world’s second-largest industrial power.
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/russian/industr.htm
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• Stalin eliminated anyone who threatened his power.
• Historians estimate that Stalin was responsible for the deaths of 8-13 million people. Millions
more died in famines caused by the restructuring of Soviet society.
http://www.alevieten.com/news/index.php?Archive=78
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• By 1939, Stalin had firmly established a totalitarian government.
• In a totalitarian state, individuals have no rights, and the government
suppresses all opposition, no private ownership.
http://www.bodyweb.it/forums/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=108844
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Fascism in Italy• While Stalin was consolidating his power in
the Soviet Union, Benito Mussolini was establishing a totalitarian regime in Italy,
where unemployment and inflation produced bitter strikes, some communist-led.
http://www.utrechtschaak.nl/forum_item.aspx?id=147&lst=&all=1
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Benito Mussolini• Alarmed by these threats, the middle and upper
classes demanded stronger leadership.• A powerful speaker, Mussolini knew how to appeal
to Italy’s wounded national pride.• He played on the fears of economic collapse and
communism. In this way, he won the support of many discontented Italians.
http://www.windoweb.it/guida/cultura/biografia_benito_mussolini.htm
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• By 1921, Mussolini established the Fascist Party.
• Fascism stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of individuals.• To strengthen the nation, Fascists argued, power must rest with a single strong leader and
a small group of devoted party members.
http://www.windoweb.it/guida/cultura/biografia_benito_mussolini.htm
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• In October 1922, Mussolini marched on Rome with thousands of his followers, whose black uniforms gave them the name “Black Shirts.”
• When government officials, the army, and the police sided with the Fascists, the Italian
king appointed Mussolini head of the government.
http://forum.maidenfans.com/index.php?topic=13002.msg151341
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• Calling himself IL Duce, or “the leader,” Mussolini extended Fascist control to every aspect of Italian life. Mussolini crushed all opposition by making Italy a totalitarian state.
http://ch.novopress.info/?p=705
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“Italy wants peace, work, and calm. I will give these things with love if possible, with force if necessary.”
- Benito Mussolinihttp://putschisten.de/
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• In Germany, Adolf Hitler had followed a path to power similar to Mussolini’s.
• At the end of WWI, Hitler had been a jobless soldier drifting around Germany.
• In 1919, he joined a struggling group called the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, better known as the NAZI Party.
Hitler in World War I http://www.greatwar.nl/remarque/remarque-eng.html
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• Hitler proved to be a powerful speaker and organizer and quickly became the party’s leader. Calling himself Der Fuehrer - “the
leader” – he promised to bring Germany out of chaos.
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• In Hitler’s book Mein Kampf [My Struggle], Hitler set forth the basic
beliefs of Nazism that became the plan of action for the Nazi Party.
http://diberville.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_diberville_archive.html
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• Nazism is the German brand of fascism, based on extreme nationalism.
• Hitler, who had been born in Austria, dreamed of uniting all German-
speaking people in a great German empire.
http://mix.fresqui.com/hitler
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• Hitler wanted to enforce racial “purification” at home. In his view, Germans, especially blue-
eyed, blond-haired “Aryans” – formed a “master race” that was destined to rule the
world.• “Inferior races,” such as Jews, Slavs, and all
nonwhites, were deemed fit only to serve the Aryans.
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133c/133cPrevYears/133c04/133c04l02NaziPast.htm
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• A third element of Nazism was national expansion.
• Hitler believed that for Germany to thrive, it needed more lebensraum, or living space.
• One of Hitler’s aims in Mein Kampf, was “to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitled on this earth,” even if this
could be accomplished only by “the might of a victorious sword.”
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• The Great Depression helped the Nazis come to power. Because of war debts
(reparations) and dependence on American loans and investments, Germany’s economy was hit hard.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005121/data/germany.htm
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• By 1932, some 6 million Germans were unemployed. Many men who were out of work joined Hitler’s private army, the
storm troopers (or Brown Shirts).
• The German people were desperate and turned to Hitler as their last hope.
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• By mid 1932, the Nazis had become the strongest political party in Germany.
• In January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor (prime minister). Once in power, Hitler dismantled Germany’s
democratic Weimar Republic.
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• In its place, Hitler established the Third Reich, or Third German Empire.
• According to Hitler, the Third Reich would be a “Thousand-Year Reich” – it would last for a
thousand years.
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Imperial Japan• Halfway around the world, nationalistic
military leaders were trying to take control of the imperial government of Japan.
• These leaders shared in common with Hitler a belief in the need for more living space for
a growing population.
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Invasion of China• Japanese militarists launched a surprise attack
and seized control of the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931.
• Within several months, Japanese troops controlled the entire province, a large region about twice the size of Texas, that was rich in
natural resources.
http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/showthread.php?t=1095
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Hideki Tojo &Invasion of China 1937
• In July 1937, Hideki Tojo, Chief of Staff of Japan’s Army, launched the invasion into China.
• As French, Dutch, and British colonies lay unprotected in Asia, Japanese leaders leaped at the
opportunity to unite East Asia under Japanese control by seizing the colonial lands.
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• The watchful League of Nations had been established after WWI to prevent just such aggressive acts. The League condemned
Japan, who in turn simply quit the League.
http://www.germanwarmachine.com/daybyday/1943/oct.htm
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Militarist Japan• Meanwhile, the success of the
Manchurian invasion put the militarists firmly in control of Japan’s
government.
http://www.germaniainternational.com/japan.html
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Hitler ignores the Treaty of Versailles
• The failure of the League of Nations to take action against Japan did not escape the
notice of Europe’s dictators.• In 1933, Hitler pulled Germany out of the
League.• In 1935, he began a military buildup in
violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
http://www.history2u.com/book6_global_warfare.htm
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Italy invades Africa
• Meanwhile, Mussolini began building his new Roman Empire.
• His first target was Ethiopia, one of Africa’s few remaining independent countries. By the
fall of 1935, tens of thousands of Italian soldiers stood ready to advance on Ethiopia.
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• As in Germany, the League of Nation’s response was ineffective. In regards to Italy, the League initiated an ineffective economic
boycott in response to Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia.
• The League did nothing to stop Hitler.
http://www.workers.org.uk/features/feat_0107/corporate.html
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• By 1936, Ethiopia had fallen. In desperation, Haile Selassie, the ousted Ethiopian emperor,
appealed to the League for assistance. Nothing was done.
“It is us today,” - “It will be you tomorrow.” - Haile Selassie
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Spanish Civil War• In 1936, a group of Spanish army officers led
by General Francisco Franco, rebelled against the Spanish republic.
• Revolts broke out all over Spain, and the Spanish Civil War began.
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• While, the Western democracies remained neutral.
• Hitler and Mussolini backed Franco’s forces with troops, weapons, tanks, and fighter planes.
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Francisco Franco• The Spanish Civil War forged a close relationship between German and Italian dictators, who signed a formal alliance
known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.• After a loss of almost 500,000 lives. Franco’s
victory in 1939 established him as Spain’s fascist dictator.
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• In an effort to keep the U.S. out of future wars, beginning in 1935, Congress passed a
series of Neutrality Acts.• The first two acts outlawed arm sales or
loans to nations at war.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~le20j/NeutralityAfterWar.html
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• Despite congressional efforts to legislate neutrality, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
found it impossible to remain neutral.• When Japan launched a new attack on China in
July 1937, Roosevelt found a way around the Neutrality Acts.
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• Because Japan had not formally declared war against China, the president claimed
there was no need to enforce the Neutrality Acts.
• The United States continued sending arms and supplies to China.
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/northchina.html
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• A few months later, Roosevelt spoke out strongly against isolationism in a speech delivered in Chicago. He called on peace-loving nations to “Quarantine,” or isolate,
aggressor nations in order to stop the spread of war.
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/Amer_pol_hist/fi/0000015b.htm
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• At last, Roosevelt seemed ready to take a stand against aggression – that is, until isolationist newspapers exploded in protest, accusing the
president of leading the nation into war. Roosevelt backed off in the face of criticism.
For the moment the conflicts remained “over there.”
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