Italy

Fascism in Italy

Bento Mussolini set up first racist dictatorship in Italy 1922

Racism-centralized authoritarian government that glorifies that state and is destructive to basic human rights

“ll Duce” - the leader

Bring back glory days of ancient rome

Mussolini pre war conquest and world response

Libya

1934 no response from the world

Ethiopia

1935 Haillle Selassie asked League of Nations for help”us today, you tomorrow” They don’t help

Albania

1939 no response from the world

Fascism in Germany

Aldolf Hitler set up a nazi dictatorship in Germany in 1933

“Der Fuhrer” - the leader

wanted to reclaim territory lost in the Treaty of versailles

“One people, one empire, one leader”

Hitler’s prewar conquests and world response

Remilitarizing

1935 hitler disregarded Treaty of versailles and announced Germany would re-arm

Rhineland

1936 put military in Rhineland, support to be neutral buffer between Fr and GB

Austria

1938 annexed and made part of Germany

Sudetenland

1938 hitlers’s last demand but wanted this land Appeasement -GB and FR agreed (Munich)

Czechoslovakia

1939 Hitler took all the Czechoslovakia

Militarism in Japan

General Hideki Tojo grabbed power behind the scenes and strongly influence Emperor Hirohito

Planned to conquer Asia for raw materials and wanted to build a great east Asia co-prosperity sphere”

Japans pre war Conquests and world response

Manchuria

1931 province of China was invaded and occupied by Japan League of Nations protested and Japan withdrew 1933

China

1937 invaded all china “Rape of Nanjing” killing 100,000s

Hitler signs nonaggression pact with ussr