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Stalin USSR (allied)
1. Background prior to coming to power
- Dropped out of WWI
- In bad economic state
- Lennon was the communist leader
2. How they came to power
Power struggle and Stalin rises through the ranks becoming secretary general
3. Once in power, how did they change their country, both positive and negative
1927, industrialization of the country because he believed in the Karl Marx theory. Caused starvation and famine. Policies basically killed people. Collectivization of the farms, making all the farms into one big farm. 5 yr plan, hoped to improve the the industrialization. Great purges, purged the govt of untrustworthy people
4. What was their role in World War II
- Non-Aggression Act-agreement between Germany and USSR to invade Poland and not attack each other
- Germany eventually breaks this act and attacks USSR
- Scorched Earth Policy-went and burned everything that the enemies needed, prevented Germany from using anything
5. How they lost power
Died of stroke
Mussolini Italy (Axis)
He was kicked out of school for stabbing a kid with a pen knife. He was an elementary school teacher.
2. How they came to power -The king wanted Mussolini to help him.
3. Once in power, how did they change their country, both positive and negative - He made Italy more efficient, he established Fascism (Militarism, Nationalism, Imperialism) Country is number one, Italy is more important than anything. Invaded Ethiopia.
4. What was their role in World War II -
5. How they lost power - He was stoned, spit on, shot, hung, and dragged around town
2. How they came to power
The king appointed him to stop communism
3. Once in power, how did they change their country, both positive and negative
- made the country more efficient
- established, fascism, militarism, nationalism, imperialism
- invaded Ethiopia
- Rome Berlin axis
4. What was their role in World War II
- Military was weak
- played 'second fiddle' to Germany
5. How they lost power
Adolf Hitler Germany (axis)
- born in 1889 in Austria
- dropped out of school at 16
- wanted to be and artist and architect
- failed to get into art school
- moved to Germany in 1913
- joined German Army when WWI broke out
- was wounded twice (once by gas)
- won numerous medals
- accepted the “stab in the back” theory
- hated Weimer Republic
- joined the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi) after WWI
- voted Fuhrer (Leader) of the Nazi Party in 1921
- Nazi party attracted the following groups of people:
1. Manual laborers
2. Former soldiers
3. Adventurers and misfits
- The Nazi Party:
1. was violently nationalistic
2. was anti-Semitic (anti-Jew)
3. Hated the democratic Weimer Republic
4. talked of the Volk (German common people) superiority
Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
- Hitler and the Nazis tried to take over the German Gov’t
- Failed miserably
- Hitler was arrested for treason
- Got five years but only served 9 months
- While in prison he wrote his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
- Outlined Hitler’s ideas:
1. Aryans were the superior race
- Germans, Dutch, Belgians, Scandinavians and English
- No interbreeding
2. Anti-Semitic beliefs
- Hated Jews, inferior race
- Hitler associated them with the Weimer Republic and
Communism
3. Hated democracy
- Believed one person had to have the power to keep order and discipline
4. Undo the Treaty of Versailles
5. Re-unite German speaking peoples
- Austria, Sudetenland, Danzig, Poland
6. Lebensraum
- “Living space” in Russia for the German People
- Hitler also learned that he would have to come to power legally
- January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany
- Within 18 months Hitler had total power and created “The Third Reich"
1. holocaust
2. non-aggression pact with USSR
3. invasion of Poland 9-1-39
4. invasion of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, lux, Netherlands, France- spring/early summer 1940
5.Battle of Britain later 1940
Invasion of USSR-Lebensraum
-Tennigrod, moscow stalingrod
-Long supply lines, Russian winter
7. Berlin- The end- May8th, 1945
8. germany split in two
FDR US (allied)
1. Background prior to coming to power
went to Harvard, gov of NY tried but failed to be VP
2. How they came to power
president, beat out HH
won 32, 36, 40, 44
3. Once in power, how did they change their country, both positive and negative
help, the young, farmers, elderly, the new deal. Closed and reopended safe, regulated stockmarket,
4. What was their role in World War II
Neutrality (pearl harbor Dec 7th 1941, declared war next day)
5. How they lost power
Died of stroke
- neutrality
- pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941
- Pacifica war Dec-June 1942. Island hoppinig
- Africa
- italy
- d-da
- yalta conference
- the end-death
Winston Churchill Britain (allies)
1. Background prior to coming to power
In the army, born into wealthy family, didn't get along with his parents, didn't do well in school (speech impediment) became leader in conservative party
2. How they came to power
Voted prime minister in 1939-45, 51-55
3. Once in power, how did they change their country, both positive and negative
4. What was their role in World War II
-Anti-appeasement-munich
-strong anti-communist
-battle of Britain
-Friends with FDR
-No armistice
-"Soft underbelly of Europe"
-D-day
June 6, 1944
-Defeated by Atlee
5. How they lost power
1st time, he got beat
2nd time, resigned for health reasons
Hirohito and Tojo you know
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