How Did They Do What They Did?

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Hitler

Mussolini

Stalin

-rose to power in National Socialist

German Workers party taking
control of German Goc in 1933
-concentration camps 4 jews bc
believed to be threat to aryan
supremacy
-killed 6 million people
-attack on poland in 1939 started
ww2
-1941 germany occupied lotta
europe & north africa
-left 4 Munich may 1913 but forced
to return then failed physical,
volunteered 4 Bavarian army
following year & served all ww1 @
western front, it affected thoughts
of war
-after ww1 came to control
National Socialist German Workers
Party, hoped for power germany
-coup attempt fail 1923 , turned
after release jail, to buildup of the
party to seize power legally
-hoped to restructer germany on
racist basis so wins wars to expand
living space until domination of
globe
-came to power 1933 (all on
national geographic site)
-came to power from american
stock change collapsed, president
cut wages & pay for non
wealthy(unemployed) <lotta then
workers turned to communism,

moved to switzerland, journalist, socialist

politics, moved back to italy drafted into
ww1 formed facist party for unemployed
veterans ,political chaos , black hirts
marched on rome and presented was only
man capable of restoration, slowly rose
and made self dictator
maintianed pow4er with elections &
oropoganda, (bbc)

voted out of power own grand council &

arreted upon leaving a meetign w king ,
then fled to germany(hisotryt)

born into poverty, stalin became

involved in revolutionary politics &
criminal activities young . after
bolshevik leader died stalin
outmaneuvered rivalas for power ,
eliminated all his threats when he
came to power, people who tried to
protest were killed, had entire russian
military on his side.
died from hemorrhage, died while in
power

wealthy afraid & funded hitlers

campaigns
(bbc site)
-hired hella to improve the
economy/ help him
-kept control through terror s.s
squad, popo (BBC)
-commits suicide w/wife

Hitler

Mussolini

Stalin

maintained power through own ss

squad and police

maintained power through elections and

propoganda

Hitler

Mussolini

eliminated all threats and killed

anybody who prtested

Stalin

hitler and his wife killed themself so

they wouldnt et caught

elected out of office by own council and

arrested, then fled to germany

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Hitler

Mussolini

Stalin

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he was involved in criminal activities

young then got into politics and
became dictator, had entire russian
military on his side, raises eyebrows
because was involved in criminal
activities and raised in poverty, no
one knows what he could do with a
military on his side