Important People
Became the dictator of the U.S.S.R from 1922-1925 and killed an estimated 750,000 people.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
It ended WW1, but its terms created resentment in Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Targeted non-German people and committed genocide of 6 million Jews.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
An authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement that gained popularity in the 1920s.
What is Fascism?
He was a military leader and Prime Minister of Japan during WW2 known for extreme violence.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
The weak peace organization that was created after WW1 to prevent future world wars.
What is the League of Nations?
Dictators promoted these 3 things to gain popularity.
What is military might, ethnic pride, and national prestige.
The policy European countries used in order to keep Germany happy and under control to avoid another word war.
What is appeasement?
He was the fascist dictator that overthrew the Italian king and parliament and ruled from 1925-1945.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
It started with the crash of the stock market in 1929 and created economical and social hardship around the world.
What is the Great Depression?
Colonized African countries and authorized an "ethnic cleansing" resulting in the death of thousands.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
He was the U.S. president during most of WW2 and created the New Deal to combat the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This dictator sent adversaries to forced labor camps known as the Gulags.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The alliance made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What is the Axis Powers?
Germany became a dictatorship after he was named Chancellor in 1933. He hated the terms from the Treaty of Versailles and promised to make Germany great again.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Leaders from countries like Germany, Italy, USSR, and Japan took control of their governments and became totalitarian.
What is the Rise of Dictators?
This country invaded the countries of China, Korea, and Manchuria in the 1930s and later Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
What is Japan?
When prices skyrocket and currency drastically loses value.
What is hyperinflation?