Totalitarianism

  • Mussolini's rise to power

    Mussolini's rise to power
    Benito Mussolini and his Fascists Squads
  • Berlinors are worried because of the economic downturn

    Berlinors are worried because of the economic downturn
    A run on a bank in Berlin.
  • Stock market crash leads europeans to unemployement and poverty.

    Stock market crash leads europeans to unemployement and poverty.
    A young and hopelessly unemployed Berliner panhandles for spare change.
  • Hörst Wessel, a Nazi activist, is assassinated in Berlin by a communist militant during a propaganda march.

    Hörst Wessel, a Nazi activist, is assassinated in Berlin by a communist militant during a propaganda march.
  • May Day 1930: Pro-communist Berliners express admiration of Soviet Russia.

    May Day 1930: Pro-communist Berliners express admiration of Soviet Russia.
  • Sir Oswald Mosley creates the British Union of Fascists.

    Sir Oswald Mosley creates the British Union of Fascists.
    Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Blackshirts (the militia of the BUF)
  • NSDAP wins parliamentary elections with Hitler as party leader

    NSDAP wins parliamentary elections with Hitler as party leader
    Hitler’s personal propaganda. The staging of power.
  • Hitler is inaugurated Reich Chancellor.

    Hitler is inaugurated Reich Chancellor.
    Hitler’s accession to power after elections
  • Joseph Goebbels becomes Hitler’s Minister of propaganda

    Joseph Goebbels becomes Hitler’s Minister of propaganda
  • The end of democracy and the Military power in Germany.

    The end of democracy and the Military power in Germany.
    Hitler, supported by the army, establishes absolute power by merging the offices of chancellor and president.
  • Beginning of the Spanish Civil War

  • Guernica, by Pablo Picasso, now in the National Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid.

    Guernica, by Pablo Picasso, now in the National Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid.
    Guernica depicts the violence during the Spanish Civil War.
  • Guernica is bombed

    Guernica is bombed
  • Munich Agreement: Chamberlain declares 'Peace for Our Time'

    Munich Agreement: Chamberlain declares 'Peace for Our Time'
  • End of the Spanish Civil War

    Franco sets up an authoritarian regime in Spain.
  • Death of Franco

    Death of Franco
    Also the end of his military dictatorship