The Rise of Totalitarianism (1919-1939)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

U.S. President who proposed a package of economic

and social programs to combat the Great Depression

Joseph Stalin

totalitarian, Communist leader who proposed a

"Five-year plan" of industrialization and agriculture

in the Soviet Union

Benito Mussolini

totalitarian, Fascist dictator of Italy who glorified

violence, discipline and loyalty to the state

Adolf Hitler

totalitarian, Nazi dictator who wanted his Third Reich

to include a German "master race" that would

dominate Europe

Vladimir Lenin

Bolshevik leader of the Communist revolution in Russia

who promised the people "peace, land and bread."

Leon Trotsky

Russian revolutionary and central figure in the

Communist revolution who was assassinated by the

NKVD under Stalin

Victor Emmanuel III

King of Italy who asked Mussolini to become prime

minister after the March on Rome

Paul von Hindenburg

president of the Weimar Republic in Germany who

appointed Hitler as chancellor

Red Scare

a period of fear of communist radicals in the United States

United States

world's leading economic power after WWI

Federal Reserve

The ______________________ raised interest rates to slow the run on the stock market.

Communism

political ideology that has no private ownership of property

Fascist

Communist and __________________ societies are strictly controlled by a ruler or ruling class.

Capitalist

Taxes are generally lower in a __________________ society.

Mussolini

This Italian dictator's fighting leagues (fascists) broke up strikes, and destroyed labor unions & newspapers.

Pact of Steel

This military & political agreement between Mussolini and Hitler was part of the Rome-Berlin Axis.

Great Purge

a campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalin's power

Holodomor

a man-made famine-genocide in which the USSR starved the people of Ukraine

Treaty of Versailles

This treaty caused a reduction in military power, land, population, and money in Germany after WWI.

Propaganda

________________________ led to growing Nazi influence and takeover as it portrayed Hitler as the last hope for Germany.