Totalitarian+Rulers

Nick Evans

Comparing Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini's rise to power.


 * Mussolini**
 * 1912 - Editor for the //Avanti//, the official Socialist newspaper
 * Expelled from Socialist party and Formed the //Fascio di Combattimnto// in 1919 //(becomes Fascists)//
 * New parliament in 1919 = ineffective; Conservatives beginning to fear socialists
 * Mussolini swapped from leftist to rightist, gained support of middle class
 * Developed //Squadritsi//, armed fascist bands used to attack socialist offices and newspapers
 * create disorder --> fascism thrives
 * gained much support
 * Threatened to march on Rome
 * Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini Prime Minister 1922
 * Hitler**
 * Vienna years = development of his ideologies
 * Karl Lueger - mayor of Vienna, Anti-Semitic
 * Adolf Lanz - Aryan superiority
 * Georg von Schonerer - German nationalism
 * richard Wagner - will and power needed to dominate
 * Politician in Munich
 * 1921=total control over the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) --> Nazi Party
 * gained support; mass political movement
 * SA=Storm troops: defend Nazi party; force and terror
 * Beer Hall Putsch=failed uprising against Weimar government
 * hilter improsoned; wrote Mein Kampf
 * Lebensraum= living space for countries
 * Leadership Principle allowed sole power of Party
 * President Hindenburg makes Hitler Chancellor 1933
 * uses Goring to make the SA official police of Germany
 * Enabling Act=power to make laws etc
 * Gleichschaltung= all institutions Nazi-fied
 * Hindenburg dies-->Hitler becomes approved sole leader
 * Stalin**
 * Lenin's New Economic Policy = modified capitalism
 * prevented economic disaster
 * Politburo came to power after Lenin's death
 * Left=Trotsky - end NEP; start industrialization, continue revoution
 * Right=against revolution, socialist state, continue NEP
 * Stalin=joined Bolsjeviks 1903
 * General secretary
 * very powerful and influential
 * complete control of Communist Party
 * ordered expulsion and assassination of Trotsky
 * purged all old Bolsheviks to establish dictatorship