Rise of the Dictators

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Rise of the Dictators

• Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Franco

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Fascism

• promotes nationalism
• regulates industry
• suppresses opposition
• relies on military power to maintain control
• uses propaganda to convince the public that its
  aims are valid
• selects scapegoats - groups to blame for the
  countrys problems

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Mussolini

• July 29 1883 - April 28 1945
• Italian
• Il Duce

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Hitler

• April 20 1889 - April 30 1945
• Austrian born
• Fuhrer

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Franco

• December 4 1892 - November 20 1975
• Spanish
• Caudillo de Espana, por la gracia de Dios

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Stalin

• December 18 1878 - March 5 1953
• Georgian
• Man of Steel
• cult of personality

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Communism

• Ideally - a classless state in which all members
  shared in equal distribution of resources
• To eliminate the gap between the poor and the rich