Can you name the Dictator or tell what country he is from? Don’t worry if you don’t recognize these people - you’re not supposed to know many of these.

Can you name the Dictator or tell what country he is from?

Don’t worry if you don’t recognize

these people - you’re not supposed to

know many of these guys yet!

Who is this famous actor portraying?

Mao

11Mao Tse-Tung - China

Stalin22

Hitler

33

Kim Il Sung44

Kim Il Sung

Kim Jong Il

55

Kim Jong-Il

Hussein66

Castro

77

Lenin88

Vladimir Lenin - USSR

Mussolini99

Examples of dictators:Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin

One person - the ‘Dictator’ -

holds all of the power in the country

So no elections are heldbecause the Dictator does

not allow people to choose who they want to

run their country

Anyone who is considered to be an enemy of the Dictator

and his political party would be persecuted

Only one political party is allowed to exist - the

Dictator is the leader of this party, and the party helps

him to run the country

Dictators rely upon a large, strong and loyal army to help them to maintain their power

What’s a

Dictator-

ship?

Styles of government

Dictatorship

Communism

Democracy

The dictator holds all the power in the country

Property and businesses are owned by a whole nation instead of by individuals; people share all the wealth

An elected government of the people, by the people and for the people

German aggression• Germans aggression in

Europe began when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party took control of Germany in 1933.

• Aggression: the actions of starting a fight or war by a person or nation

• Germany soon took over Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland

German aggression

• Germany had a huge, well-trained army, equipped with the most modern tanks and other weapons.

• It also had the largest air force in the world.

Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”)

• A new type of warfare used to quickly conquer most of western Europe.

• Squadrons of German planes would suddenly appear to bomb a country’s military bases and factories.

• At the same time, hundreds of German tanks and thousands of troops would quickly move into that country’s cities.

Did it work???

• Using the “blitzkrieg,” Germany conquered Poland and France, each within a month.

• Within 3 months, Germany also conquered Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Belgium

Dictatorship – The dictator holds all the power in the country.

Communism – People share all the wealth. Property and businesses are owned by the whole nation.

Democracy – elected government of the people, by the people, & for the people

Hitler – Dictator of Germany