⚡ The Rise of Totalitarianism

In what year did Hitler become chancellor of Germany?

Mussolini led 26,000 Blackshirts in the March on Rome in 1922 to demand control of the Italian government.

What was the name of the anti-Jewish attack that occurred on November 9, 1938?

More than 1,200 Canadian volunteers, called the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, fought in the Spanish Civil War.

How many people were killed during the Japanese attack on Nanjing in 1937?

The Spanish Civil War lasted three years and ended with Franco's victory in 1939.

What was the name of Japan's secret police force that was similar to the Gestapo?

Define totalitarianism and explain the key characteristics that all totalitarian states share. Include details about how they use violence, propaganda, and economic control.

Compare Stalin's methods of controlling the Soviet Union with Hitler's methods in Nazi Germany. Include details about their secret police, persecution of enemies, and use of labor camps.

Explain how the Nazi ideology of the "master race" led to systematic persecution of various groups. Describe the progression from discriminatory laws to Kristallnacht and hint at what would become the Final Solution.