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The Totalitarian Powers of Europe
Directions: Fill out the chart below and be sure to master the information.
Define totalitarianism:
Country
Leader and how Methods of
Examples of
he rose to power Maintaining control
Totalitarianism
(eg, laws, propaganda)
Germany
Italy
Methods of solving
country’s economic
problems
Goals and
achievements of
those goals
Country
Leader and how
he rose to power
Methods of
Maintaining control
(eg, laws, propaganda)
Examples of
Totalitarianism
Methods of solving
country’s problems
Goals and
Achievements
Russia
Key terms: be sure to place these key terms (and explain their significance) and many more in the appropriate boxes above:
schutzstaffel, Gestapo, OVRA lebensraum, , Hitler Youth, Il Duce, Squadristi/Black Shirts, der Fuhrer, NKVD, Great Purge.
This is just the beginning of a long list. When this is all done, you should be able to explain how each of these three countries were
examples of totalitarianism and which were more totalitarian than others.