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Intro to WW2

Stalin’s Totalitarian State - Lenin had set up a communist gov’t in the _____________________ - He dies in 1924 & Joseph Stalin gains power & ruled as a totalitarian dictator

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Intro to WW2

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  1. Stalin’s Totalitarian State • - Lenin had set up a communist gov’t in the _____________________ • - He dies in 1924 & Joseph Stalin gains power & ruled as a totalitarian dictator • - ____________________________________: a single party controls the gov’t and every aspect of people’s lives. Citizens must obey the gov’t without ____________. ____________________________of the gov’t is severely punished • - Examples: Stalin ordered peasants to hand over land to gov’t-run farms. He __________________ political enemies. • Fascist Italy • - Totalitarian leaders also came to power in ____________& ________________ • - These dictators were Fascists • - _______________________: political system that is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism & blind loyalty to the state • Communists support = _________________ • Fascists support = ________________________ Intro to WW2 • Mussolini • - In 1922 Benito Mussolini & his Fascist party seized power in _________________ • - Many Italians were annoyed that the Versailles Treaty (ending _______) did NOT grant Italy territories it wanted • - Italy’s economy was unstable & there was fear growing of a ___________________________________ • - Mussolini outlawed all political parties except his own once he was in power • - Controlled the press & banned criticism of the gov’t • - Critics were _________________________________ • - School children recited, “____________________________________!” • Conquering Ethiopia • 1930s Mussolini used foreign conquest to distract Italians from economic problems • He promised Italians he would restore the “greatness of Rome” & embarked on a program of military aggression • __________________________: warlike act by one country against another without just cause • Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935 & conquered them (_________________________________________) • Nazi Germany • - Adolf Hitler brought the National Socialist German Workers’ Party to power • - Nazis: ____________________________________________________________________ • - Germans resented the treaty of Versailles as it blamed ____________________for WW1 & left them with heavy costs

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