The Rise of Dictators Chapter 17, Section 1

World Wide Economic Depression

• Germany, Italy, and Japan will come to be

known as the “Axis Powers”.

• They attempt to solve their economic

problems through conquest

USSR

Stalin (Steel Man) - 1924

• Born Loseb Vissarionovich Jugashvili in 1878

• Stalin assumes control of the government upon

Lenin’s death in 1924

Stalin

• Collectivization

of farms

• Rapid

industrialization

• Millions were

sent to labor

camps

Purges

• Rid the country of all

of his political

enemies.

• 600,000 “political

enemies”

Stalin • Inefficient economy creates food shortages

20 million deaths are attributed

to Stalin during his rule of the

Soviet Union!

Italy

Mussolini (Il Duce)

• 1922

• Mussolini is

named prime

minister and later

seizes control of

the government

• Used his “black shirts” to eliminate his political enemies

Mussolini • Promised to end Italy’s economic problems

• Promises to re-establish the Roman Empire

Mussolini

• Italian economy improves

• Italy invades and conquers North Africa

Germany -

Adolf Hitler

(Der Furher)

• Nazi Party rises to

power through

intimidation and

mass rallies.

• Hitler named the

Chancellor of

Germany in 1933

Hitler Promises

• Restore German pride and power

• Expand Germany’s border to include all Germanic people

• Stabilize the German economy

• Purify the German race

Hitler • Eliminates

opposition using

“brown shirts”

• Germany rearms

and expands

• Germany pride

and economy is

restored

• “Non-Desirables”

are eliminated

from the political

process