Rise of Totalitarianism

By Ruubbeenn

  • Rise of Totalitarianism

    Rise of Totalitarianism
    The Rise of Totalitarianism. The isolationist approach to foreign policy meant U.S. leadership in world affairs diminished after World War I. Overseas, certain nations saw the growth of tyrannical governments which reasserted their power through aggression and created conditions leading to the Second World War.

  • Hungrary's Dictatorship

    Hungrary's Dictatorship
    During World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary was a member of the Axis powers. In the 1930s, the Kingdom of Hungary relied on increased trade with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany to pull itself out of the Great Depression.

  • Italy's Dictatorship

    Italy's Dictatorship
    As the Fascist movement built a broad base of support around the powerful ideas of nationalism and anti-Bolshevism, Mussolini began planning to seize power at the national level. In the summer of 1922, Mussolini's opportunity presented itself. The remnants of the trade-union movement called a general strike.

  • Spain's first Dictatorship

    Spain's first Dictatorship
    Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquess of Estella (8 January 1870 – 16 March 1930), was a dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during Spain's Restoration era. ... He promised to eliminate corruption and to regenerate Spain.

  • Poland's Dictatorship

    Poland's Dictatorship
    The May Coup (Polish: przewrót majowy or zamach majowy) was a coup d'état carried out in Poland by Marshal Józef Piłsudski from 12 to 14 May 1926. The coup overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Stanisław Wojciechowski and Prime Minister Wincenty Witos.

  • Yugoslavia's Dictatorship

    Yugoslavia's Dictatorship
    The 6 January Dictatorship was a royal dictatorship established in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of Yugoslavia after 1929) by King Alexander I (r. 1921–34) with the ultimate goal to create a Yugoslav ideology and a single Yugoslav nation. It lasted from 6 January 1929, when the king prorogued parliament and assumed control of the state, and ended with the 1931 Yugoslav Constitution.

  • Portugal's Dictatorship

    Portugal's Dictatorship
    Overview. Since 1932, Portugal had been governed by an authoritarian rule, the Estado Novo or New State. The Estado Novo, in turn, evolved from the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship) set up after the 28 May 1926 coup d'etat (called the "National Revolution" under the Estado Novo).

  • Germany's Dictatorship

    Germany's Dictatorship
    Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich until 1943 and Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country which they transformed into a dictatorship.

  • Greece's Dictatorship

    Greece's Dictatorship
    The Greek monarchy was restored in 1935, and Metaxas was appointed Prime Minister in April 1936. On 4 August 1936, with the support of King George II, Metaxas initiated a self-coup and established an authoritarian, nationalist and anti-communist regime.

  • Spain's second Dictatorship

    Spain's second Dictatorship
    Francisco Franco was a general and the leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and the head of state until his death in 1975.