The conditions that enabled dictators to rise to power in the interwar period

Question 1

Germany: Adolf Hitler

Answer 1

• WW1
• Collapse of the Weimar republic
• Paris Peace Conference (T.O.V results)
• Depression - economic instability
• Need for post-war rebuilding
• desire for firm and decisive leadership

Question 2

Russia: Joseph Stalin

Answer 2

• Death of Lenin
• Centrilisation of power caused by ban on factionalism, and civil war, unrest due to WW1/civil war
• Power of Secretariat allowed stalin to take power

Question 3

Italy: Benito Mussolini

Answer 3

• WW1
• Great depression
• PPC
• New Democratic measures
• unemployment
• inflation
• class conflict/ civil disorder
• fear of communism
• Fascist party rose rapidly

Question 4

Japan: Emperor Hirohito

Answer 4

• Great depression
• strain on japenese economy and resources/suffering at home/famine
• military expansion in china/korea - army became powerful- factional power struggles - tojo became prominent - took over other key roles + became a dictator