can you name the dictator or tell what country he is from? don’t worry if you don’t recognize...
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Can you name the Dictator or tell what country he is from?
Don’t worry if you don’t recognize
these people - you’re not supposed to
know many of these guys yet!
Who is this famous actor portraying?
Mao
11Mao Tse-Tung - China
Stalin22
Hitler
33
Kim Il Sung44
Kim Il Sung
Kim Jong Il
55
Kim Jong-Il
Hussein66
Castro
77
Lenin88
Vladimir Lenin - USSR
Mussolini99
Examples of dictators:Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin
One person - the ‘Dictator’ -
holds all of the power in the country
So no elections are heldbecause the Dictator does
not allow people to choose who they want to
run their country
Anyone who is considered to be an enemy of the Dictator
and his political party would be persecuted
Only one political party is allowed to exist - the
Dictator is the leader of this party, and the party helps
him to run the country
Dictators rely upon a large, strong and loyal army to help them to maintain their power
What’s a
Dictator-
ship?
Styles of government
Dictatorship
Communism
Democracy
The dictator holds all the power in the country
Property and businesses are owned by a whole nation instead of by individuals; people share all the wealth
An elected government of the people, by the people and for the people
German aggression• Germans aggression in
Europe began when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party took control of Germany in 1933.
• Aggression: the actions of starting a fight or war by a person or nation
• Germany soon took over Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
German aggression
• Germany had a huge, well-trained army, equipped with the most modern tanks and other weapons.
• It also had the largest air force in the world.
Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”)
• A new type of warfare used to quickly conquer most of western Europe.
• Squadrons of German planes would suddenly appear to bomb a country’s military bases and factories.
• At the same time, hundreds of German tanks and thousands of troops would quickly move into that country’s cities.
Did it work???
• Using the “blitzkrieg,” Germany conquered Poland and France, each within a month.
• Within 3 months, Germany also conquered Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Belgium
Dictatorship – The dictator holds all the power in the country.
Communism – People share all the wealth. Property and businesses are owned by the whole nation.
Democracy – elected government of the people, by the people, & for the people
Hitler – Dictator of Germany