Totalitarianism in Power

1. Establishing the Third Reich - - The Nazi Economic Miracle? 2. Benito Mussolini and Fascist Italy - - The Ideology of Fascism and the Need for War - - Italian Turmoil and the Road to Power - - - - The Squadristi and Mussolini as Il Duce 3. The Soviet Alternative: Communism in Power - - The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin - - Stalins First Five Year Plan - - Collectivization, Famine and Terror - - - - The NKVD and the War on the Kulaks

A Nazi election poster warning of the Communist alternative: Victory or Bolshevism

Utopian image of the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft (racial community)

The Nazi Economic Plan: Deficit Spending on Public Works; Wage and Price Control; A Sealed Economy (Autarky)

Public Works: The Autobahn

Nazi Intimidation: Germans! Protect Yourselves! Dont buy from Jews!

Italian Forces in World War One

Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)

Mussolini the Soldier, 1917

Mussolini expounds the principles of fascism

Squadristi

The March on Rome, October 1922

Benito Mussolini as Il Duce (The Leader)

Lenin leads the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917

Lenins last photo, prior to his death in January, 1924

The Young Stalin

Lenin and Stalin

Poster for the First Five Year Plan: Free Working Hands of the Collective Farms To Industry! (1931)

Poster Promoting Collectivization (1934)

Starvation in the Ukraine during the artificial famines of 1932-33

Protest: We Collective Farmers Are Liquidating the Kulaks as a Class

Stalin Signs a Death Sentence

Stalin literally erased those he had executed during the Great Purge, like Nikolai Yezhov, former head of Stalins secret state police (NKVD)

Nazi Aggression and Appeasement Policy

1. Versailles, Nazi Ideology and Hitlers Foreign Policy 2. The Diplomatic Revolution (1933-1936) - - German Rearmament - - The Policy of Appeasement - - The Remilitarization of the Rhineland, March, 1936 - - Building Alliances Italy and Japan 3. The Path to War (1937-1939) - - Planning for the Blitzkrieg - - The Anschluss with Austria, March 13, 1938 - - The Sudetenland Crisis & Munich Conference, Sept. 1938 - - Neville Chamberlain and Peace in Our Time 4. Hitler Moves on Poland - - Danzig and the Polish Corridor - - The Hitler-Stalin Pact (or Non Aggression Pact) , August 23, 1939

Europe in 1933

Nazi propaganda poster promoting the fight for Lebensraum (1941)

Hitler believed that Stalin had made Russia weak

Hitler in LIFE magazine, 1936

A Rearmed German Army on Parade, 1935

A military display in Berlin, the day Hitler announced Rearmament (March 9, 1935)

Hitler at the signing of the Anglo-German Naval Pact, June 18, 1935

Newspaper cartoon mocking appeasement

German Troops Re-Enter the Rhineland, March 7, 1936

Hitler and Mussolini

Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact on October 23, 1936, forming a united front against communism

Hitler reviews German troops at Nuremberg

German Tanks for Blitzkrieg, or Lightening War

A German stamp celebrating the rebuilding of the Luftwaffe (Air Force)

Austrians enthusiastically greet the Nazis during the Anschluss (link-up), March 12,1938

Austrian Jews Forced to Clean the Streets Following the Anschluss

Hitler and British PM Neville Chamberlain (left) talk at the Munich Conference, September 29, 1939

Chamberlain and Hitler at Munich: The Height of Appeasement

(L) Neville Chamberlain announces Peace in Our Time; (R) Winston Churchill

Hitler in Prague, March 15, 1939

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signs the Non-Aggression Pact, August 23, 1939. Stalin (behind right) looks on.

The pact allowed Hitler to avoid a two-front war, and Stalin to avoid a war he wasnt ready to fight; Poland was secretly divided in two