Franklin D. Roosevelt: President of the U.S. from March 4, 1933 -April 12, 1945 (so during WW2). Stood for an isolationist policy so the U.S. could focus on domestic policy in solving the Great Depression. Responsible for “The New Deal”, which tried to revamp U.S. economy
Neville Chamberlain: British PM from 1937-1940. His main policy was appeasement with Germany, believing Hitler’s wants could be satiated. In the beginning, he was hailed as a hero for keeping peaceful diplomatic relationships, but when appeasement failed (because Britain was no longer from a place of strength, and Hitler had alterior motives), Chamberlain was the one everyone blaimed it on.
Joseph Stalin: Dictator of USSR from 1929-1953. He had a similar strategy to the …show more content…
He supported fascism, but believed in the party being over the state. Advocated for nationalism, and wanted all the Italian territories to come together as one to unite all Italian-speaking people. He strongly believed that expanding territory would show the assertion of power, and a famous case of this for Italy is Abyssinia in 1935. He believed that these principles could only work under a one-party state (Fascism), and that every Italian worked as part of a cog. He wanted to return Italy to the height it had been during the Roman Empire, and one of his famous propaganda sayings is “Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.” To enforce these principles, there was the Ovra (political and state police), he exiled dissenters of his principles to the South, and used his journalistic background to promote the use of propaganda for his …show more content…
He wanted to take control of China, and one major incident of him doing this was the Manchuria incident. Militariasm was a huge policy that became popular in Japan due to political and economical unrest, and another policy Tojo had was that he wanted to be seen as equal to the rest (Russo-Japanese War supported this policy), however, the West was not having this. There was then distrust of the West and it’s imperalistic policies (“Co-Prosperity Sphere”), which is ironic because Japan itself had its own “superiority complex” with its colonies. “We are not too proud to fight, but are too proud to accept a place of admitted inferiority”. Thus, Japananese rearmament was enormous, and the military eventually overtook the government. But was Tojo’s policy fascist? It certainly had fascist undertones, with the belief that everything non-Japanese was to be hated, that the Japanese way of life was the best way of life and should be enacted on everyone, that everyone should fight and die for the sake of the empire if need be, and the “Imperial Rule Assistance Association” (one party
Neville Chamberlain: British PM from 1937-1940. His main policy was appeasement with Germany, believing Hitler’s wants could be satiated. In the beginning, he was hailed as a hero for keeping peaceful diplomatic relationships, but when appeasement failed (because Britain was no longer from a place of strength, and Hitler had alterior motives), Chamberlain was the one everyone blaimed it on.
Joseph Stalin: Dictator of USSR from 1929-1953. He had a similar strategy to the …show more content…
He supported fascism, but believed in the party being over the state. Advocated for nationalism, and wanted all the Italian territories to come together as one to unite all Italian-speaking people. He strongly believed that expanding territory would show the assertion of power, and a famous case of this for Italy is Abyssinia in 1935. He believed that these principles could only work under a one-party state (Fascism), and that every Italian worked as part of a cog. He wanted to return Italy to the height it had been during the Roman Empire, and one of his famous propaganda sayings is “Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.” To enforce these principles, there was the Ovra (political and state police), he exiled dissenters of his principles to the South, and used his journalistic background to promote the use of propaganda for his …show more content…
He wanted to take control of China, and one major incident of him doing this was the Manchuria incident. Militariasm was a huge policy that became popular in Japan due to political and economical unrest, and another policy Tojo had was that he wanted to be seen as equal to the rest (Russo-Japanese War supported this policy), however, the West was not having this. There was then distrust of the West and it’s imperalistic policies (“Co-Prosperity Sphere”), which is ironic because Japan itself had its own “superiority complex” with its colonies. “We are not too proud to fight, but are too proud to accept a place of admitted inferiority”. Thus, Japananese rearmament was enormous, and the military eventually overtook the government. But was Tojo’s policy fascist? It certainly had fascist undertones, with the belief that everything non-Japanese was to be hated, that the Japanese way of life was the best way of life and should be enacted on everyone, that everyone should fight and die for the sake of the empire if need be, and the “Imperial Rule Assistance Association” (one party