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Chapter 17-3: The Rise of Militarism

Key People/Terms:
 * Benito Mussolini: an Italian veteran founder the Fascist Party 1921
 * Fascist Party: believed that a military-dominated government should control all aspects of society
 * Blackshirts: Mussolini led an army of followers in a march on Rome
 * Joseph Stalin: became the Nation's leader after Vladimir Lenin leader of Bolshevik Revolution was assassinated
 * Totalitarian State: a country where the government has complete control
 * Nazi Party: Hitlers National Socialist Party in 1932
 * Brownshirts: Nazi storm storm troopers were known as this name because of the color of their uniforms
 * anti-Semitism: hatred of Jews which became a gov. policy
 * Kristallnacht: "the night of broken glass" the violence provided a chilling preview of the fate that awaited European Jews and other who Hitler opposed
 * Franicisco Franco: general
 * Popular Front: an international alliance of organizations united against fascism

Key Events: Mussolini in Italy Stalin in the Soviet Union Hitler in Germany Franco in spain Militarists in Japan: The creation of a Japanese empire would
 * The Italian king appointed Mussolini prime minister and granted him dictatorial powers
 * He limited freedom of speech, arrested political opponents, and restricted voting rights
 * U.S congress passed a neutrality act banning arms shipments to both sides after Mussolini sent Italian forces into African nation Ethiopia in 1935
 * Stalin turned the Soviet union into Totalitarian State
 * 1927, government began taking control of privately owned lands and reorganizing them into large state-run farms
 * Hitlers gov. called The Third Reich, claimed dictatorial powers
 * violated Treaty of Versailles
 * Made Conservative military men threatened by the reforms united under his leadership
 * Popular became a speech by
 * five Ja[an direct control over territories that peoduced iron, petroleum, rubber, and a rimber
 * July 7, 1937, Japanese and Chinese troops clashed near Beijing