Comparing the Totalitarian Regimes

<table> <tr> <th> <p><b>Aspect</b></p> </th> <th> <p><b>Fascist Italy</b></p> </th> <th> <p><b>Nazi Germany</b></p> </th> <th> <p><b>Stalin's USSR</b></p> </th> <th> <p><b>Militarist Japan</b></p> </th> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Leader</p> </td> <td> <p>Mussolini</p> </td> <td> <p>Hitler</p> </td> <td> <p>Stalin</p> </td> <td> <p>Emperor Hirohito (figurehead); military leaders</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Ideology</p> </td> <td> <p>Fascism, ultranationalism</p> </td> <td> <p>Nazism (racial nationalism, anti-Semitism)</p> </td> <td> <p>Communism (Marxism-Leninism)</p> </td> <td> <p>Militarism, emperor worship, ultranationalism</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Economy</p> </td> <td> <p>Corporatism</p> </td> <td> <p>State-directed capitalism</p> </td> <td> <p>Command economy, Five-Year Plans</p> </td> <td> <p>Industrial capitalism with state direction</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Key violence</p> </td> <td> <p>Suppression of opposition; invasion of Ethiopia</p> </td> <td> <p>Holocaust, war of conquest</p> </td> <td> <p>Collectivization, Great Purge, Gulag</p> </td> <td> <p>Rape of Nanjing, Asian atrocities</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Foreign aggression</p> </td> <td> <p>Ethiopia 1935, Spain 1936-39, joined WWII</p> </td> <td> <p>Rhineland 1936, Austria 1938, Czechoslovakia 1938-39, Poland 1939, then Europe</p> </td> <td> <p>Annexed Baltics, eastern Poland 1939-40</p> </td> <td> <p>Manchuria 1931, China 1937, Pacific 1941</p> </td> </tr> </table>