Warm Up 271 The Gathering Storm Meet the Leaders Joseph Stalin took control after the Russian Revolution and ruled Russia as a Totalitarian State A single party controls the government and every aspect of peoples lives ID: 716279
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How did the Treaty of Versailles help lead to WWII?
Warm UpSlide2
27-1: The Gathering Storm Slide3
Meet the LeadersSlide4
-Joseph Stalin took control after the Russian Revolution and ruled Russia as a
Totalitarian State.
-A single party controls the government and every aspect of people’s lives.-Used brutal methods to modernize Soviet industry and agricultureCommunist style of governmentGovernment owns all property and means of production. Everyone is “equal.”
-May have killed an estimated 30 million people
Soviet Union- StalinSlide5
-Represented U.S. Democracy
-Wanted to keep U.S.
isolationist-minimal involvement in foreign affairs-In 1935 Congress passed the Neutrality Act-banned arms sales or loans to countries at war
.
-He got rid of the Roosevelt Corollary (Teddy)
-wanted to repair relationship with Latin America United States- FDRSlide6
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Constitutional Monarchy
- Prime Minister along with a Parliament are leaders. (similar to President & Congress)Monarchy is just a ceremonial figurehead position with no decision making power
- Considered one of the greatest leaders and speakers of the 20
th
centuryGreat Britain- Winston ChurchillSlide7
-Benito Mussolini used a
fascist
style of government-Fascism- govt, rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state-Once Mussolini came to power he outlawed all political parties but his own-He outlawed criticism of the government -Extremely brutal and violent
-Struck fear into followers
Italy- MussoliniSlide8
-Adolf Hitler turned the National Socialist German Worker’s Party into the Nazi party.
-Brought them to power
-Used anger from the Treaty of Versailles to gain support-When he became dictator of Germany, he turned them into a fascists state-Militaristic totalitarian state
Germany- HitlerSlide9
-Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s misfortune
-Used propaganda to “brainwash” the people.
-Most Jews in Germany were rounded up and put into concentration camps.Hitler continued…Slide10
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Japan was ruled by a
figurehead Emperor Hirohito.No actual decision making power-They were taken over by General Hideki Tojo -Japan believed they were a superior race to all other races.
-Also still angry about Treaty of Versailles
-Started a war with China
-Set out to take over the Asian world and beyondJapan- Tojo & Hirohito