Agenda 1 The Christmas Truce 2 Warm Up

Agenda 1. The Christmas Truce 2. Warm Up 3. Discussion: Interwar Period: Italy, Japan and Soviet Union 4. Primary Source Documentation HW: Finish Primary Source work

Warm Up What tactics did Hitler use to gain power in Germany?

Mussolini, Hirohito, and Stalin

Definition of Fascism • Radical, authoritarian nationalism characterized by dictatorship and total control of industry and economy • Authoritarianism, militarism, and a one-ruler philosophy dominated this governmental structure.

Italy • Benito Mussolini and Blackshirts rise to power in 1922. • Fascists win victory through intimidation and violence. • Mussolini ruled with violence and repression. • He wants resurgence of Roman Empire, invades Ethiopia

Rise of Japan • Still anti-western • Industrialization allows Japan to have strongest military in the East • Emperor Hirohito rules totalitarian country. • Imperial General: Hideki Tojo • Seeking Japanese Empire • Manchuria, Korea, and large parts of China under their control.

USSR and Stalin • Dictatorship grows through death, fear, and oppression. • Creates Secret Police • Great Purge: – Mass executions of former Lenin supporters – Labeled “Enemies of the state”

Five Year Plans • Plans to fix economy and industrialize USSR • 5 Year Agriculture – – Collective Agriculture. – No more privately owned farms • 5 Year Industry – 1500 new factories constructed for automobile and tractor manufacturing. – Mobilizes war industry

Non-Aggression Pact (1939) • Hitler and Stalin meet • Sign agreement not to attack each other or allies • Will not interfere with the growth and actions of either country • Divide central European countries after conquest