There are three main leaders who seized power while there were economic troubles and won power in the feelings of anger.
For example, after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 in Germany, the US loans to Germany, and the German economy collapsed. The number of unemployed people grew and they starved on the streets. In this crisis, people looked at Hitler for help because he offered them the “answer” to their problems, someone to blame and an extreme solution.
Adolf Hitler had lots of things going for him which enabled him to win the power he had during the war and make him a dictator. First of all the people of Germany were angry about the first World War and the Treaty of Versailles that blamed them for the war. Their feelings made it easy for Hitler to earn appealed by expressing his hatred for the treaty. Nazi propaganda influenced the German masses to believe that the Jews were to blame for everything wrong with Germany and that Hitler was their last hope. The people of Germany also did not have anyone else to trust as their leader since Stormtroopers attacked people who opposed Hitler and threatened Hitler’s many opponents to keep them quiet by the threat of murder.One of the main reasons Hitler got people to believe him was because he was a brilliant speaker. Hitler believed in his solution and that drove people to believe him. This kept him going when other people might have given up.
After changing Germany's mindset, he built up a vast military and put up concentration camps. Hitler began filling the camps with Jews, gypsies, and others deemed "second-rate." By the war's end, 6 million Jews had been slain along with 5 million others.
By the time Hitler became the leader of Germany, Benito Mussolini had been the leader of Italy for more than ten years. He had been improving Italian economy and his ambition of regaining Italy to status and power was growing closer. Like Hitler, Mussolini served in the First World War as a young man that dreamed of being a military glory in a war to come. Both returned from the First World War to find their countries in political and economic need and formed political parties. By doing this Mussolini began helping Italy succeed in restoring Italy. He invaded Ethiopia with cruel disregard for world opinion. Mussolini looked for allies to Italy and found Germany and Japan. He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War which gained him an ally in Germany. His biggest mistake was that he and Italy entered World War 2. Germany had been at war with Britain and France since the previous September, but Italy was still at peace, and had little reason to fear that any of the other powers would attack it. Germany was on the verge of winning the Battle of France, and France was likely to surrender very soon. Maybe Mussolini thought that Italy would be the next target for Nazi aggression and that if he did not help Hitler win. Whatever in was Mussolini declare war on France. The war did not end, however, and as it continued, the true weaknesses of the Italian Army and Navy were revealed. Brave and well-trained pilots could do very little when most of them were flying old-fashioned, lightly-armed biplanes that could not catch modern bombers. Amy men, who lack confidence in their leader and equipment, were not eager to make up for it with their blood though and Italian armies were beaten not only by Britain, France and the USA, but by the Greeks too. By July 1943, Italy had lost all of it colonies in Africa, and most of its army, and was being invaded. Mussolini was arrested and Victor Emmanuael III, the King of Italy, appointed a new Prime Minister. Italy attempted to change sides on the war front. Hitler sent German paratroops to rescue Mussolini from a mountaintop resort where he was held prisoner. Mussolini then set up the Italian Social Republic in German-held northern Italy, with him as its leader. When the Germans surrendered in northern Italy, Mussolini was arrested again. He and his mistress were removed from the jail they were in and where put to death immediately without trial.
Joseph Stalin was another leader in World War 2. When he was first starting out though, he spent years building his position as general secretary secretly into the most powerful one in the communist party. After his party leader’s death in 1924, a group of Stalin and two others governed the party of communist. Stalin switched parties and by 1928, the first year of the Five-Year Plans, Stalin's supremacy was complete. From this year, he could be said to have taken control over the party and the country. The final stage of Stalin's rise to power was the ordered assassination of Trotsky in Mexico in 1940. After Trotsky's death, only two members of Stalin’s old party remained: Stalin himself and his foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Stalin strengthened his position of power with the Great Purges, which were against his political and ideological opponents. Actions used against them ranged from imprisonment in work camps to assassination. Under the alleged reason of constructing socialism in the country, Stalin terrorized large segments of the Soviet population. On example of this were the Kulaks, a term for prosperous farmers who were deprived of their right when agriculture was collected. He also orchestrated a massive famine in the Ukraine in which an estimated 5 million people died. It is believed that with the purges, forced famines, state terrorism, labor camps, and forced migrations, Stalin was responsible for the death of as many as 40 million people within the borders of the Soviet Union. In 1939, Stalin made the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany which divided Eastern Europe between the two powers. In 1941, however, Hitler broke the pact and invaded the Soviet Union. Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Red Army put up brutal opposition, but this was ineffective against the advancing Nazi forces. The Germans reached the outskirsts of Moscow in December, but were stopped by an early winter and a Soviet counter-offensive. With military equipment aid of their allies, the Soviet forces were able to regain their lost territory and push their over-stretched enemy back to Germany itself. By some estimates, one quarter of the Russian population was wiped out in the war. There was, then, a huge shortage of men of the fighting-age generation in Russia. As a result, to this day, World War II is remembered very vividly in Russia, and May 9, Victory Day, is one of its biggest national holidays.
Wartime leaders
There are three main leaders who seized power while there were economic troubles and won power in the feelings of anger.For example, after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 in Germany, the US loans to Germany, and the German economy collapsed. The number of unemployed people grew and they starved on the streets. In this crisis, people looked at Hitler for help because he offered them the “answer” to their problems, someone to blame and an extreme solution.
Adolf Hitler had lots of things going for him which enabled him to win the power he had during the war and make him a dictator. First of all the people of Germany were angry about the first World War and the Treaty of Versailles that blamed them for the war. Their feelings made it easy for Hitler to earn appealed by expressing his hatred for the treaty. Nazi propaganda influenced the German masses to believe that the Jews were to blame for everything wrong with Germany and that Hitler was their last hope. The people of Germany also did not have anyone else to trust as their leader since Stormtroopers attacked people who opposed Hitler and threatened Hitler’s many opponents to keep them quiet by the threat of murder. One of the main reasons Hitler got people to believe him was because he was a brilliant speaker. Hitler believed in his solution and that drove people to believe him. This kept him going when other people might have given up.
After changing Germany's mindset, he built up a vast military and put up concentration camps. Hitler began filling the camps with Jews, gypsies, and others deemed "second-rate." By the war's end, 6 million Jews had been slain along with 5 million others.
By the time Hitler became the leader of Germany, Benito Mussolini had been the leader of Italy for more than ten years. He had been improving Italian economy and his ambition of regaining Italy to status and power was growing closer.
Like Hitler, Mussolini served in the First World War as a young man that dreamed of being a military glory in a war to come. Both returned from the First World War to find their countries in political and economic need and formed political parties. By doing this Mussolini began helping Italy succeed in restoring Italy. He invaded Ethiopia with cruel disregard for world opinion. Mussolini looked for allies to Italy and found Germany and Japan.
He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War which gained him an ally in Germany.
His biggest mistake was that he and Italy entered World War 2. Germany had been at war with Britain and France since the previous September, but Italy was still at peace, and had little reason to fear that any of the other powers would attack it. Germany was on the verge of winning the Battle of France, and France was likely to surrender very soon. Maybe Mussolini thought that Italy would be the next target for Nazi aggression and that if he did not help Hitler win. Whatever in was Mussolini declare war on France.
The war did not end, however, and as it continued, the true weaknesses of the Italian Army and Navy were revealed. Brave and well-trained pilots could do very little when most of them were flying old-fashioned, lightly-armed biplanes that could not catch modern bombers. Amy men, who lack confidence in their leader and equipment, were not eager to make up for it with their blood though and Italian armies were beaten not only by Britain, France and the USA, but by the Greeks too.
By July 1943, Italy had lost all of it colonies in Africa, and most of its army, and was being invaded. Mussolini was arrested and Victor Emmanuael III, the King of Italy, appointed a new Prime Minister. Italy attempted to change sides on the war front.
Hitler sent German paratroops to rescue Mussolini from a mountaintop resort where he was held prisoner. Mussolini then set up the Italian Social Republic in German-held northern Italy, with him as its leader.
When the Germans surrendered in northern Italy, Mussolini was arrested again. He and his mistress were removed from the jail they were in and where put to death immediately without trial.
Joseph Stalin was another leader in World War 2. When he was first starting out though, he spent years building his position as general secretary secretly into the most powerful one in the communist party. After his party leader’s death in 1924, a group of Stalin and two others governed the party of communist. Stalin switched parties and by 1928, the first year of the Five-Year Plans, Stalin's supremacy was complete. From this year, he could be said to have taken control over the party and the country. The final stage of Stalin's rise to power was the ordered assassination of Trotsky in Mexico in 1940. After Trotsky's death, only two members of Stalin’s old party remained: Stalin himself and his foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
Stalin strengthened his position of power with the Great Purges, which were against his political and ideological opponents. Actions used against them ranged from imprisonment in work camps to assassination.
Under the alleged reason of constructing socialism in the country, Stalin terrorized large segments of the Soviet population. On example of this were the Kulaks, a term for prosperous farmers who were deprived of their right when agriculture was collected. He also orchestrated a massive famine in the Ukraine in which an estimated 5 million people died. It is believed that with the purges, forced famines, state terrorism, labor camps, and forced migrations, Stalin was responsible for the death of as many as 40 million people within the borders of the Soviet Union.
In 1939, Stalin made the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany which divided Eastern Europe between the two powers. In 1941, however, Hitler broke the pact and invaded the Soviet Union. Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Red Army put up brutal opposition, but this was ineffective against the advancing Nazi forces.
The Germans reached the outskirsts of Moscow in December, but were stopped by an early winter and a Soviet counter-offensive. With military equipment aid of their allies, the Soviet forces were able to regain their lost territory and push their over-stretched enemy back to Germany itself.
By some estimates, one quarter of the Russian population was wiped out in the war. There was, then, a huge shortage of men of the fighting-age generation in Russia. As a result, to this day, World War II is remembered very vividly in Russia, and May 9, Victory Day, is one of its biggest national holidays.