b day History Romero look into some of the important nations involved in WWI

B 8-9 Due 11:59 PM Week of 5/4 Leticia Romero Hey guys!!

So this week we are going to look into some of the important nations involved in WWII that were not Germany and the U.S.. This is to give you guys some background on the countries fighting in WWII and why. It is impoartant because WWII was not only fought between Germany, the U.S, and Britain. There were many other nations involved and the deserve attention as well.

This week you should start with the Video about Stalin but stop at 3:14. Then learn about Benito Mussolini, Japan, and finally the League of Nations. You have the entire week to work on this and it will count as both classwork grade and a Quiz Grade. The Classwork grade it wheter you answered every question or not. The Quiz grade is based on accuracy.

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 Joseph Stalin, Leader of the Soviet Union (1878-1953)

History Brief_ Benito Mussolini Gains Power in Italy

History Brief_ The Rise of Imperial Japan

What was the League of Nations

Stalin

1. Who was Josef Stalin?
   a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until 1953 as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and premier of the Soviet Union.
2. Who motivated Stalin?
   

   Stalin had a personal goal to gain as much power as he could for himself at the apex of society in the Soviet Union, and to maintain that power. He was ruthless in dealing with enemies, real and imagined, leading to the creation of a society where people were afraid to challenge him. He was liable even to turn on those that might appear closest to him in the centre of power in the Communist Party. His motivation for this undoubtedly sprang from his personal ruthless temperament - a temperament that had been further hardened during the days of absolute turmoil, hardship and civil war that surrounded the Communist Revolution in Russia in 1917.

   
   

   However, this remorseless concern with absolute power (while attempting to maintain something of the facade of an open, free society) also came from the fact that, having achieved control in such turbulent circumstances, Stalin was determined that the Communist Party should retain the leadership of the country at all costs. In addition, Stalin and other tough, ruthless men at the top of Party hierarchy felt it was imperative to maintain absolute control during the drive to modernize the Soviet Union. Russia had long been a technologically backward country but Stalin's broader goal was to make his country an advanced, modern society capable of challenging Western powers, as pohnpei observed. To achieve modernization in a relatively short time was an enormous task, and Stalin evidently felt that it could only be achieved in a ruthless manner. Witness, for example, his treatment of the more wealthy peasants (kulaks) who did not...
3. How did he gain power?
   He served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin, he rose to become dictator of the Soviet Union, using a combination of manipulation and terror to destroy his opposition.
4. What did Stalin do to better Russia?
   At the start of the 1930s, Stalin launched a wave of radical economic policies that completely overhauled the industrial and agricultural face of the Soviet Union. This came to be known as the Great Turn as Russia turned away from the near-capitalist New Economic Policy (NEP) and instead adopted a command economy.
5. How did he deal with his opposers?
   

   During the second half of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression against opposition elements within the Communist Party. The machinery of coercion had previously been used only against opponents of Bolshevism, not against party members themselves. The first victims were Politburo members Leon Trotskii, Grigorii Zinov'ev, and Lev Kamenev, who were defeated and expelled from the party in late 1927. Stalin then turned against Nikolai Bukharin, who was denounced as a “right opposition,” for opposing his policy of forced collectivization and rapid industrialization at the expense of the peasantry. 

   Stalin had eliminated all likely potential opposition to his leadership by late 1934 and was the unchallenged leader of both party and state. Nevertheless, he proceeded to purge the party rank and file and to terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions. During the ensuing Great Terror, which included the notorious show trials of Stalin's former Bolshevik opponents in 1936-1938 and reached its peak in 1937 and 1938, millions of innocent Soviet citizens were sent off to labor camps or killed in prison. 

   
   

   By the time the terror subsided in 1939, Stalin had managed to bring both the party and the public to a state of complete submission to his rule. Soviet society was so atomized and the people so fearful of reprisals that mass arrests were no longer necessary. Stalin ruled as absolute dictator of the Soviet Union throughout World War II and until his death in March 1953.

Mussolini

1. Define the word “Facism”
   a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
2. Who was Benito Mussolini?
   Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was Prime Minister of Italy from the fascist coup d'etat in 1922 until his deposition in 1943, and Duce of Fascism from the establishment of the fasci of combat in 1919 to his execution in 1945 during the Italian civil wa
3. How did Mussolini gain power?
   As Italy slipped into political chaos, Mussolini declared that only he could restore order and was given the authority in 1922 as prime minister. He gradually dismantled all democratic institutions. By 1925, he had made himself dictator, taking the title "Il Duce" ("the Leader")
4. What did Mussolini do to better Italy?
   Mussolini knew that Italy after 1918 was a poor nation compared to France and Britain. ... Cleared land also had roads built on them to improve Italy'sinfrastructure. These schemes were labour intensive and employed a lot of people so they served a purpose in this area. Many saw the Battle of Land as a success.
5. How did Mussolini deal with his opposers?
   Mussolini gradually dismantled the institutions of democratic government and in 1925 made himself dictator, taking the title 'Il Duce'. He set about attempting to re-establish Italy as a great European power. The regime was held together by strong state control and Mussolini's cult of personality.

Japan

1. Who were the most respected people in Japanese society? Who had the highest social class?

   1890-1945: I

   Top: emperor as reigning monarch
   Samaurai
2. How did Japan change in the 1920s?
   financial system in the 1920s and to the impact of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Japanese economy of the 1920ssuffered from a retrenchment after the boom of the First World War. For most of the decade, the real economy remained dull, with low economic growth, mild deflation, and an unsettled financial system.
3. Was Japan affected by the Great Depression? If so how?

   Devastated.
   They traded silk for coal and oil. 
   Starving. Nationalists argued Democratic caused it
   
   The consequences, economically, were abrupt deflation and a severe contraction of economic activities in 1930 and 1931
4. What was the solution to fix overcrowding in Japan?

   Expand. Conquest and Colonization
   
   
5. How did Japan gain Manchuria? What resources did it gain?

   Land to colonize. Farming. Resources

   Military occupation.
   Iron steel coal gained.
   Military rule, assassinated 2 prime ministers.
   Propaganda in schools and media.
   Japan invaded China
   
   
6. How did the League of Nations respond to Japan’s advances? 
   Little support to China request.
   
   What was Japan’s response? Called the French and British hypocrites
   They walked out of the League of Nations.
   More Emperor Strength.
   
   

League of Nations

1. What was the League of Nations?
   63 countries met to negotiate and arbitrate peacefully
2. Who created it?
   The League of Nations was thought up by Woodrow Wilson, the American President during the First World War. It was to be a group of nations that worked together to keep peace.
3. What was the job of the League of nations?
   The League of Nations was a international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy and improving global welfare.
   They settled borders disputes, especially islands.
   
   
   
4. The League of Nations was disbanded in 1946. That means it existed before and during WWII. Based on this information what can be said about the League of Nations? Was it an effective organization?
   The League of Nations effectively resolved some international conflicts but failed to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War.