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Joseph Stalin
He created myths of his own greatness and everyone worshiped him and had photos of him and wrote about him. -
Benito Mussolini
He started the National Fascist Party. He ended up becoming the leader of the government because people loved his dynamic public speaking skills, his visions of a strong orderly Italy and the use of violence against Communists and Socialists, whom many Italians blamed for the disorder of postwar Italy. Once in power he established a dictatorship. He allowed no other political parties and crushed opponents. His government controlled newspapers, schools, and businesses. He had total control. -
Adolf Hitler
At the start of WWI he volunteered for the German army. Hitler's anger about the Treaty of Versailles led him to politics, and he joined the National Socialists or Nazis. In 1923 he tried to seize power by force and failed and was imprisoned for nine months. While in prison he wrote a book.After release he grew support and spread the myth of Aryan greatness and the Jews and by 1933 the Nazis became the most powerful party in the nation. He became chancellor then dictator. -
Francisco Franco
During the civil war Fascist general Franco came to power. After a brutal and bloody war where hundreds of thousands of people died, including several hundred American participants, Franco's Nationalists had defeated the Republicans. Spain came under the control of a Fascist dictator.
