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WORLD WAR 2

EUROPEAN DICTATORS

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I. RUSSIA (USSR)

  • *RESENTMENT FROM THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES.
  • PARTS OF RUSSIAN LAND TAKEN TO CREATE POLAND, FINLAND ESTONIA, LITHUANIA.
  • NOT REPRESENTED AT THE MEETING.

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A. JOSEPH STALIN

  • 1. REPLACED LENIN AS THE LEADER OF THE SOVIET UNION.
  • 2. BEGAN AN AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING .
  • 3. WANTED TO BECOME A WORLD POWER.

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B. AGRICULTURAL REFORM

  • 1. END PRIVATE FARMING.
  • 2. COLLECTIVE AGRICULTURE.
  • a. ORGANIZATION/PRODUCTION OF ALL CROPS/RANCHING UNDER GOV’T CONTROL.
  • 3. FARMERS FORCED TO GIVE UP LAND & WORK ON THE COLLECTIVE FARMS.

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C. INDUSTRIAL POWER�(**THE 5 YEAR PLAN)

  • 1. CAMPAIGN TO BUILD MASSIVE GOV’T. OWNED FACTORIES, STEEL MILLS, & POWER PLANTS.
  • 2. *FOLLOW UP BY A 2ND & 3RD 5 YR PLAN.
  • 3. **BY 1939, USSR HAS BECOME THE WORLD’S 3RD LARGEST INDUSTRIAL POWER.

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D. RESULTS

  • 1. USSR BECOMES A POLICED STATE.
  • 2. SECRET POLICE WERE EVERYWHERE = NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR PRIVACY.
  • 3. THE GREAT PURGE – 8-13 MILLION PEOPLE EXECUTED UNDER STALIN.
  • 4.**BY 1939 STALIN HAD ESTABLISHED A TOTALITARIAN GOV.T.
  • a. MAINTAINS COMPLETE CONTROL OVER ITS CITIZENS. NO RIGHTS, GOV’T SUPPRESSES ALL OPPOSITION.

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II. ITALY

  • *FACISM – A STRONG NATIONALISTIC GOV’T HEADED BY A DICTATOR.
  • TREATY OF VERSAILLES MAKES ITALY A DEMOCRATIC STATE.
  • ITALY CAN’T COPE W/ PROBLEMS UNDER A DEMOCRACY.
  • DICTATOR SEIZED POWER.

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A. BENITO MUSSOLINI

  • 1. FELT A DEMOCRATIC GOV’T WAS DESTROYING ITALY.
  • 2. STRONG SENSE OF NATIONALISM = ITALY TO BE A WORLD POWER.
  • 3. UNLIKE STALIN, HE FELT THE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE CONTROL OF THEIR BUSINESSES BUT W/ STRONG GOV’T REGULATIONS.

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MUSSOLINI CONT.

  • 4. CALLED IL DUCE, LOVED BY THE PEOPLE
  • 5. DIDN’T WANT COMMUNISM.
  • 6. CRUSHED ALL OPPOSITION.

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