27-1: The Gathering Storm

Meet the Leaders

• Took control after that 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 agriculture.

- government run farms- labor camps- trials / execution / torture

SOVIET UNION- JOSEPH STALIN

• fascism - government rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state

• outlawed all political parties but his own

• outlawed criticism of the government

• If you were caught you were put in jail or killed

• Conquered Ethiopia by the use of aggression (warlike act without cause)

ITALY- BENITO MUSSOLINI

• Turned the National Socialist German Worker’s Party into the Nazi party.

• Used anger from the Treaty of Versailles to gain support.

• Becomes dictator of Germany, turns them into a fascists state.

- Militaristic totalitarian state

- government controlled press, schools, religion

• Scapegoats = Jews blamed for all of Germany’s misfortune - rounded up and put into concentration camps.

• Used propaganda to “brainwash” the people

• Defies Treaty of Versailles – builds up arm forces and expands east - Rhineland

- League of Nations protests but takes no action

“Europe will never act, They’ll just protest. And they will always be too late.” - Hitler

GERMANY- ADOLF HITLER

• Japan was ruled by a figurehead Emperor Hirohito.

• They were taken over by General Hideki Tojo

• Racial Superiority

• Started a war with China - Took over Manchuria and called it Manchukuo. The U.S. refused to recognize this.

JAPANEMEROR HIROHITO & GENERAL

HIDEKI TOJO

• Neutrality Act - banned arms sales or loans to countries at war.

• Good Neighbor Policy - He got rid of the Roosevelt Corollary (Teddy) - Got rid of the Platt Amendment which limited Cuban independence - Removed troops from Nicaragua and Haiti – FDR tried to repair relationships with Latin America.

AMERICA STAYS ISOLATIONISTFRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT