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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• 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
HITLER 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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HITLER…..
• 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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• 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• 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.