RISE OF DICTATORS SOVIET UNION JOSEPH STALIN SYSTEM

RISE OF DICTATORS

SOVIET UNION: JOSEPH STALIN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: COMMUNISM

STALIN Beliefs: The government controls EVERYTHING! Used terror to force obedience Specific Events/tactics used: Very Brutal leader, forced massive industrialization in his country, collective farms Outcome: He stays in power until death in 1953 - keeps communism, cold war issues

LEON TROTSKY- AFTER THE AXE…

Nikolai Yezhov, head of secret police. Executed for disloyalty during Joseph Stalin's time. Youtube/ITN

Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, decided to go against Lenin

GERMANY: ADOLF HITLER SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: NAZISM

“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ” Adolf Hitler

HITLER Beliefs: Aryan race- Jews do not belong and need exterminated Germany should be the BEST! Specific Events/tactics used: Begins WWII by taking land little by little and lying about it Holocaust/Genocide Outcome: Germany surrenders, split into East and West sides, is forced to pay reparations & Hitler commits suicide

ITALY: BENITO MUSSOLINI SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: FASCISM

MUSSOLINI Beliefs: Nationalism=loyalty to Italy, obedience to leader! Specific Events/tactics used: Tried to “rescue” Italy, teamed up with Axis powers to get land Outcome: He is shot by his own people and hung upside down for all to see, Italy struggles to rebuild

MUSSOLINI http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Z 9 AAn. Xo 0 F 5 c

JAPAN: EMPEROR HIROHITO SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: MILITARISM

HIROHITO Beliefs: Strong nationalism- wanted to expand empire, desire more land $$ Specific Events/tactics used: Pearl Harbor attack on U. S. Kamikaze bombers, honor to fight to the death (weak to surrender) Outcome: USA drops 2 A-bombs, forced to demilitarize America occupies Japan and they also pay reparations