Tracing the path to Totalitarian dictatorships 1.Take notes by paraphrasing 2.Don’t write down everything - be selective 3.Consider bulleting your info.
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Tracing the path to Totalitarian dictatorships
1. Take notes by paraphrasing
2. Don’t write down everything - be selective
3. Consider bulleting your info
4. Make a section for names with brief info
5. Select info that traces the countries path to dictatorship
6. Summarize in 4 – 7 sentences again tracing the countries path to dictatorship
Nicholas and family
Many hated Alexandra, his German wife. During the war she was accused of being a spy.
Rasputin claims the ability to heal the sickly child of hemophilia – a blood clotting disorder
Nicholas II goes to the eastern front and leaves the czarina in charge of the government. Believing Rasputin had too much influence over the
czarina, he is murdered in 1916. He is poisoned, shot, & drown.
The royal family lived a life of luxury while poverty plagued most of the
Russian people
Faberge eggs given as Easter presents
Alexander Kerensky becomes the leader of the provisional government
He makes the fatal mistake of trying to continue the war
Women’s Battalion of Death
All women unit organized in 1917 by the Provisional Government.When the battle began the men refused to advance.
The women decided to advance in order to shame the men.
Lenin returns from exile
The Germans give him safe passage to Russia. They view him as asecret weapon, knowing the provisional government is in trouble
The Bolsheviks demand that power be given to them when Lenin returned
Lenin’s slogan: Land, Peace, Bread
Civil War rages in Russia as the Whites – those opposed to the Bolsheviks fight
the Bolshevik Red Army
Leon Trotsky organizedthe Red Army into a successful fighting force which is ableto defeat the Whites
The Bolsheviks change their name to Communist
George V, cousin and King of England had promised the royal family they could live in
England, then he changed his mind!
Anastasia the czar’s youngest daughterThe myth continues as to her possible survival
The women had sewn jewels in the bodice of their dresses
Their executioners were surprised when the bullets didn’t penetrate
Yakov Yurovsky, executioner of the czar said “there were no tears, no sobs, no questions”
Murder room
In 1979 the grave of the family was finally found. DNA testing in 1994 confirmed the nine skeletons are Romanovs
It has been agreed that the bodies of Anastasia and Alexis are missing
On July 17, 1998 theRoyal family minusAnastasia & Alexis
were finally laid to rest
Religion was finally allowed again in the Soviet Union
during the 1990’s
Stalin wins the power struggle and Trotsky is exiled and later murdered
Most believe thathis rival Stalin had
him murdered
Stalin’s Five Year Economic Plans
• A Command economy controlled by the government
• Industry increased the output of coal, steel, & electricity
• Workers forced to meet production goals
• Consumer goods are limited
Stalin’s leadership
• He was a brutal leader who used the secret police to eliminate his enemies
• No one is sure how many millions died during his term as dictator
• The Soviet Union becomes a member of the League of Nations in 1934
• Fearful of Nazi Germany, Stalin briefly begins a policy of cooperation with Western Democracies
Fascism and Communismhave the following in common
• An authoritarian leader
• The belief in the supremacy of the state
• One party rule
• Fascists do not share the belief of a classless society with the communists
Italy after WW I
• Suffered severe economic problems• Feared a communist workers revolution• Benito Mussolini, a WW I veteran and
newspaper editor boldly promised to rescue Italy
• Through propaganda, Mussolini and his followers, the Blackshirts (a group of thugs who beat up communists and socialists) surrounded Rome
Fascism – name given to describe Mussolini’s party
In Latin, fasces meant a bundle of wooden rods tied around an ax handle. Roman officials carriedsuch bundles as symbolsof authority.
Mussolini clearly tried toinvoke the glory of Rome’s past.
Hitler’s rise to power
• He joins the National Socialist German Workers Party – Nazi for short
• The party adopted the swastika, or bent cross as its symbol
• The Nazis use their private army known as the Storm Troopers or Brownshirts to eliminate their enemies
• Hitler will be jailed after an unsuccessful coup in 1923
1932 - the Nazis are the largest party in Germany
• Hitler uses his speaking ability to gain the support of many German people
• He rages against the Treaty of Versailles especially the war guilt clause and the military restrictions
• He declares Germany is overcrowded and needs more Lebensraum, or living space
• He vows to reclaim lost lands and conquer new land in eastern Europe and Russia
Germany’s fear ofcommunism andthe burning of theReichstag gaveHitler emergencypower which he used to pass theEnabling Act givinghim absolute powerfor 4 years,.
Cartoon depicting the Temporary Triangle –
Everyone thought theycould control Hitler when he was namedChancellor.
They were very wrong!!
Nuremberg Laws 1935 deprive Jews of citizenship
Jews are forced to wear the yellow Star of David for identification
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