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António de Oliveira Salazar
Salazar
Salazar was only a dictator for about a year before he was exiled and his main supporters were Catholic. He was offered the Prime Minister spot but declined. This would have given him to much power and he knew that it would bring more attention to him. -
Czar Nicholas II
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Under his rule, Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, including the almost total annihilation of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. As head of state, he approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914, which marked the beginning of Russia's involvement in World War I. -
Kaiser Wilhelm II
VideoWilhelm was the last German emperorand king of Prussia, whose bellicose policies helped to bring about World War One. Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, Wilhelm encouraged the Austrians to adopt an uncompromising line against Serbia, effectively writing them a 'blank cheque' for German support in the event of war. Wilhelm tried to scale back the mobilisation of Germany's armed forces, but was prevented by the Germany military. -
Antanas Smetona
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During the First World War, he was the 1st Vice-Chairman, and later Chairman, of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Relief Society for helping victims of the war. In the summer of 1916, Antanas Smetona, together with other Lithuanians from Vilnius, presented a memorandum to the German Chief Commander of the Eastern Front. -
Benito Mussilini
Bennito Background
Bennito was born into a poor blacksmith family and he then became a teacher in a small school. Soon after Mussolini created a radically nationalist and anti-communist party called the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento. and he soon had 50,000 strong supporters but then went into hiding. -
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Mustafa Kemal wanted to modernize and secularize the country during his presidency. He accomplished this by researching what other governments were doing and then applied this to his people. During his presidency, he created a constitution that seperated religion from government. -
Joseph Stalin
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After the death of Lenin the primary leaders for the communist party were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Stalin was able to get rid of Leon and took power as a dictaor of the Soviet Union. -
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang attempted to exile corruption by taking out the members of the KMT accused of graft. He showed the limit of Civil and Economic freedoms, property rights, and many other things. -
Khorloogiin Choibalsan
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His rule marked the first and last time in modern Mongolian history that a single individual amassed complete political power. Often referred to as “the Stalin of Mongolia”, Choibalsan oversaw violent Soviet-ordered purges in the late 1930s that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 30,000 to 35,000 Mongolians. -
Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic
Trujillo became head of the Dominican National Guard in 1924. This promoted him into politics and he became president in 1930. Soon after he became president, he created a secret police force. This police force tortured and murdered people who were opposed to his rule. Trujillo took advantage of his political power to obtain great wealth for himself. -
Rise of Hitler
Hitler
Born into a troubled austrian family Hitler became a soldier because he wanted to serve his homeland. He blammed the Jewish for the fall of Germany in 1918. After his service in the army he became the head of the Nazi Party and is responsible for millions of Jewish Deaths http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGhdX1SI3KY&bpctr=1365973956 -
Jorge Ubico of Guatemala
President Ubico took office after President Chacon suffered a stroke which was during the great depression. He immeditantly wanted to assume dictatorial power. He conidered himself to be just like Napolean and was called "The Little Napolean of the Tropics". His policies were considered represive and many thought he had an irogant dameaner. He resined from office in 1944. -
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of El Salvador
He was the president of El Salvador after president Arturo Araujo was thrown out of power. President Martinez is best known for surpressing opposition such as the Salvadoran peasant revolt of 1932. During this revolt thousands of Salvadoran people were murdered for relationships they had with the communists. It is estimated that 10,000- 40,000 people were killed. -
Josef Tiso
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Tiso served as the Prime Minister of independent Slovakia from 14 March 1939 until 26 October 1939. On 26 October he became President of Slovakia. On October 1, 1939 he officially became the president of the Slovak People's Party. Tiso had driven the Slovakian government into corruption during the WWI era. -
Anastasio Somoza García of Nicaragua
Somoza was considered a solider and a politician who ruled Nicaragua as a dictador for 20 years. Somoza believed he was better than the people that he ruled and made a lot of money off of policies that he created. His main goal was to make Nicaragua less dependent on income made from bananas. He was not a very violent man and he created a family dynasty in which his sons followed his foot steps to president and head of the National Guard. Somoza was assasinated in 1956.
