Summarised Notes On Power & Authority In The Modern World

Resource Description

Survey 

• An overview of the peace treaties which ended World War 1 and their consequences

Focus of Study 

The Rise of Dictatorships after World War 1

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

Japan- Hideki Tojo

• An overview of the features of the dictatorships that emerged in Russia, Italy and Japan 

Japan-Hideki Tojo

  Features of his rule 

• Advocated for an aggressive foreign policy
• Ordered the attack on Pearl Harbour 
• Rise of militarism 
• Territorial gains 
• Economic growth 
• Industrialisation 

  Consequences of his rule 

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed 
• Japan entered and loss WW2
• The bombing of Pearl Harbour
• Thousands of prisoners of war tortured or dead