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The Rise of Dictatorial Regimes

The Rise of Dictatorial Regimes . Rise of Dictators . When WWI was over Europe was supposed to be democratic but it was short lived Totalitarian State – government wants to control the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural lives

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The Rise of Dictatorial Regimes

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  1. The Rise of Dictatorial Regimes

  2. Rise of Dictators • When WWI was over Europe was supposed to bedemocratic but it was short lived • Totalitarian State – government wants to control the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural lives • Achieved their goals through mass propaganda techniques • Led by a single leader and a single party

  3. Fascism in Italy • Inflation was growing and workers were staging strikes • Benito Mussolini • Fascism – glorifies the state above the individual • Strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler • Controls the people and stops any opposition • Italians were ill over the Treaty of Versailles • No extra land was given to Italy

  4. Fascism in Italy • Mussolini • Appointed Prime Minister of Italy • Right to stop any publication that criticized the Catholic Church, monarchy or state • Power to make laws and police were given unrestricted authority to arrest and jail anyone for either political or nonpolitical crimes

  5. The Fascist State • OVRA (secret police) constantly watched over people and their actions • Italian Fascists – exercised control over newspapers, radio and film • Family life in the Fascist state • Women were the foundations of the family • They were to be homemakers and mothers

  6. The Fascist State • Mussolini never achieved the amount of control Hitler achieved in Germany • Italy kept the king and gave money to the Catholic Church and kept the pope in charge • Italian Fascists promised a lot but delivered very little

  7. A New Era In the USSR • 1922 – Union of Soviet Socialist Republics aka USSR or the Soviet Union • Politburo was the communists main policy making body but they were divided • Leon Trotsky wanted to launch the USSR to rapid industrialization and spread communism • Another group wanted to focus on building a socialist state and continue peasants being able to sell their goods openly

  8. The Rise of Stalin • Joseph Stalin • Five Year Plans • Emphasized maximum production of military equipment • Steel production increased from 4 million to 18 million tons in 10 years • Cost of Industrialization • Families lived in horrible living conditions • Collectivization – private farms were eliminated and the government owned the land and peasants worked on it

  9. Costs of Stalin’s Programs • People hoarded food and killed livestock which led to famine • Stalin gave each farm worker one tiny privately owned garden plot • Anyone who resisted Stalin’s orders were forced into labor camps • 8 million Russians were arrested • Women were urged to work outside of the home

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