Who built the first modern totalitarian state? Wilson
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Mussolini
Hitler
Stalin

Totalitarianism was first developed in the 1920s by both Weimar jurist and later Nazi academic Carl Schmitt and concurrently the Italian fascists. Italian Fascist Benito Mussolini proclaimed: "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

In the midwest because it has more moderate climate than the north or south west which makes farming far easier.