CHAP 2: Totalitarian regimes

Totalitarianism aspects

• Ideology

• Dictatorship

• Dynamic leader

• State control of individuals

• State control of the society

• Methods of enforcement

• Modern technology

totalitarianism def

form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate, control and direct all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state through coercion and repression.

Fascist’s goal

restore and expand Italian territories (necessary for a nation to assert its superiority and strength like Roman emperors)

Invasion of Abyssinia

October 3rd, 1935- May 5, 1936

occupation of sudetenland completed

october 10,1938

Nazi’s goal

Annihilation of all ennemies of the Aryan Volk and unite all Germans to the fatherland + german expansion (under doctrine of Lebensraum)

Rebuilding of Germany’s army

1933-1936

German troops to the Rhineland

1936

German troops moved to Austria

March 1938

Plan for the occupation of Czechoslovakia

May 1938

Manchurian crisis

1931

Locarno Pact

1925

Franco-soviet treaty of mutual assistance

1936

Japan leave the league

1933

G leave the league

1933

Italy leave the league

1937

Churchill quote

you had the choice between war and dishonour. you chose dishonours and you will have war

Locarno Pact

1925: B, F, Belgium, germany, It → settle safe borders of the nations of Europe/ permanent remilitarization of the rhineland, g into the LON