1.2 Totalitarian regimes in the 1930s

Totalitarian regime

6/7 crtieria

• An official ideology

• A single mass party

• Police control based upon terror

• Total control over the media

• Total control over the military forces

• Total control of the economy

• Charistamtic leader

Context of the rise of totalitatrian reigmes

The first World War and its aftermath had an impact on the emergence of Fasciste Italy, Nazi Germany, and the soviet Union. The three had to face economic difficultés which weakened democracies. Italy and Gemrany had massive unemployment leading workers to look for extrême political solutions

How was Russia personnally impacted by WW1 leading it to become a totalitarian regime?

Tsarist Russian was facing a décline intensified by WW1 that lead to the 1917 revoltuions

How was italy personnally impacted by WW1 leading it to become a totalitarian regime?

Despite beign considered a winner it was not satisfied with the peace treaties and felt betrayed

How was Germany personnally impacted by WW1 leading it to become a totalitarian regime?

Had to accept the treaty of Versailles of 1919, called “diktat” which weakened the new born republic of Weimar

How was the support of the population garnered/what did it depend on?

A charismatic leader who was the head of the singel political party and the modern developpments in communication

What were the techniques used by stalin, Hitler and Mussolini to affirm their leadership?

The use and control of media

• Propoganda posters representing them as heroes guiding and saving the nation, surrounded by children

• Mass ralies

• Grandiloquent titles

What grandiloquent titles affirmed the leadership of the totalitarian leaders?

• “duce” mussolini

• “fuhrer” for Hitler

• “father of nations” for stalin