DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACE
STALIN, HITLER & MUSSOLINI
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACE
• TO UNDERSTAND THE DICTATORS THAT THREATENED WORLD PEACE IN THE 1930S, WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING VOCABULARY:
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACE• TOTALITARIANISM IS A TYPE OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION WHERE THE LEADER
(GENERALLY A DICTATOR) HAS COMPLETE AND TOTAL CONTROL OF THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.
• NAZISM IS A VARIETY OF FASCISM THAT INCORPORATES BIOLOGICAL RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM.
• FASCISM IS A FORM OF RADICAL AUTHORITARIAN NATIONALISM THAT CAME TO PROMINENCE IN MID-20TH CENTURY EUROPE.
• COMMUNISM IS A REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST MOVEMENT TO CREATE A CLASSLESS, MONEYLESS AND STATELESS SOCIAL ORDER STRUCTURED UPON COMMON OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, AS WELL AS A SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC IDEOLOGY THAT AIMS AT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS SOCIAL ORDER
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACE• ADOLF HITLER
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACEHITLER WAS…..• COMBINATION EXTREME RACIST AND
NATIONALIST.• HE WAS INTERESTED IN USING HIS
MILITARY TO EXPAND THE BORDERS
OF GERMANY.• PERSONALLY CHARISMATIC.
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACEHITLER…..• HATED THE IDEA OF COMMUNISM.• HIS BRAND OF LEADERSHIP WOULD BE TOTALITARIAN BUT, AGAIN, AS WITH STALIN, THERE WOULD BE A TWIST!!! WE REFER TO THIS TWIST
AS NAZISM.
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACE• HITLER…• …BELIEVED IN PRIVATE PROPERTY (UNLIKE STALIN) BUT DID
BELIEVE IN STRONG GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF MOST EVERYTHING ELSE (LIKE STALIN).
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACE• JOSIF STALIN
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACE• STALIN…• WHEN LOOK AT THE TWIST ON TOTALITARIANISM IN THE USSR, WE COME UP
WITH COMMUNISM.• BELIEVED THAT, EVENTUALLY, THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD RISE UP IN
REVOLUTION--A REVOLUTION LED BY THE WORKERS OR PROLETARIAT.• BELIEVED THAT, EVENTUALLY, THE WORKERS OR PROLETARIAT WOULD
EVENTUALLY RULE.• NO PRIVATE PROPERTY.• IN THE SOVIET UNION, THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS PRIVATE PROPERTY!
THE GOVERNMENT--STALIN--HAD CONTROL OF EVERYTHING.
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACE• BENITO MUSSOLINI
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DICTATORS THREATEN WORLD PEACE• MUSSOLINI…• WAS AN EXTREME NATIONALIST (MUCH LIKE HITLER).• LIKE HITLER, MUSSOLINI WAS INTERESTED IN USING HIS MILITARY TO EXPAND
THE BORDERS OF HIS NATION.• WAS PERSONALLY CHARISMATIC.• MUSSOLINI BELIEVED IN PRIVATE PROPERTY (UNLIKE STALIN) BUT DID
BELIEVE IN STRONG GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF MOST EVERYTHING ELSE (LIKE STALIN AND HITLER)
• LIKE HITLER, HE HATED COMMUNISTS.
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• MUSSOLINI…• WHEN WE LOOK AT THE TWIST ON TOTALITARIANISM THAT WE SEE IN ITALY,
WE REFER TO IT AS FACISM.
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