Stalin: 1. How did the death of Stalin’s wife impact him?
2. What is collectivization? What was collectivization really like?
3. What were Gulags? What was life like in the Gulags?
4. What was the “Great Terror”?
5. What do you think it would have been like to live in Stalin’s Soviet Union?

Hitler:

1. How did the terrible conditions in Germany after WWI lead to the rise of Hitler to power?
2. Why did Hitler blame the Jews for the problems in Germany?
3. What happened when Hitler was granted “emergency powers” as Chancellor of Germany? What did Hitler do?
4. In your own words, how did Hitler rise to absolute power in a once democratic Germany?

Mussolini:

1. How did Mussolini’s childhood lead him to the “iron-first dictator” of Italy?
2. How did Mussolini rise to power?
3. Why did Mussolini side with Hitler?
4. What is your opinion of Mussolini?
5. What does Mussolini’s rise to power teach us?