BR: What causes a person to change over time?

*Explain a situation when you have known someone to be a control freak and excessively become overbearing.

Dictators Threaten the World

Failure of World War I Peace Settlement

- Germany

a. Treaty of Versailles (War Guilt Clause)

b. Loss of land

- Russia

a. Resents loss of land

- Dictators come to power as democracies fail

Joseph Stalin

1922 Vladimir Lenin- Soviet Union1924 Joseph Stalin takes over

- Collectives- government owned farms

- Creates 2nd largest industrial power

- State sponsored famine

- Purges (8- 13 million killed) Totalitarian government exerts almost

complete control over people

Italian Fascism

Fascism- stresses nationalism, needs of state above individual

Italy - Inflation produces strikes- some communist

led- Middle/ Upper class affected - Benito Mussolini- plays on fears of

economic collapse, communism a. appointed head of government,

established totalitarian state

Nazi Germany

Adolph Hitler- leader of Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party

Mein Kempf – Hitler’s book on extreme nationalism

Goals

- Unite all German speaking people

- Racial purification

- Lebensraum- Living Space

Bell Ringer

Complete page 686- Neutrality ActsAnalyzing Visuals Questions 1 & 2

Nazi Germany

1932- 6 million unemployed in GermanyBecame strongest political party; Hitler

named Chancellor Dismantles Wiemar Republic; Third Reich

Militaristic Japan

1931- Military leaders seize Manchuria

- League of Nations condemns

- Japan quits League

- Militarist take control of government

Failures of the League

1933- Hitler quits League- 1935 begins rearmament, troops to Rhineland

1935- Mussolini tries to invade Ethiopia

* The League of Nations does nothing*

Civil War in Spain

1936- Gen. Francisco Franco rebels against Spanish republic- Spanish Civil War

Hitler & Mussolini back Franco; Stalin aids opposition

Rome-Berlin Axis createdFranco wins becomes dictator

REVIEW Who was the leader of the following

countries leading up to WWII?

Italy- “IL DUCE” Benito Mussolini

Germany- NAZI Adolph Hitler

Japan- Militarist & Emperor Hirohito, Tojo

Spain- Francisco Franco

Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin

United States- FDR