History Unit 3 Notes
Unit 3 Test Study Notes
The Rise of Fascism * Italy: Benito Mussolini (Il Duce, the leader) first totalitarian dictatorship * 1919 started fascism movement; fascism: revolt against democratic values, including equality and individual freedom; to believe in state above all else & complete totalitarianism * Following WWI Italians punished allies Germany; Great Depression very negative * Benito Mussolini founded Italian Fascist Party, prime minister 1922; promptly turned Italy dictatorship (bloody & fast uprising; black shirted Italian fascists marched on Rome) * Goal turn Italy empire; restore greatness Roman Empire * Banned opposing political parties, workers unions, censored newspapers (stopped freedom of expression); used propaganda glorify * Believed Italians born greatness, should control world; invaded & captured Ethiopia, Albania * Supported “Black Shirts”, used force; formed alliance Germany, relied Nazis * Germany (Hitler’s Rise to Power) * Adolf Hitler originally from Austria (1889); fought WWI, felt Treaty of Versailles great injustice towards all Germans (pay large sums money, especially France & Belgium, led hyperinflation, destroyed economy, starvation, violence looking for work) * November 1923 Hitler tried take over government in Bavaria first step taking over Germany; “Beer Hall Putsch” (armed revolt) failed, put in jailed; wrote Mein Kampf (my struggle), book about personal struggles, threats against “enemies” of German people, stated Aryans perfect, Jews worst race * Became involved politics, rose head National Socialist Germans Workers’ Party (Nazi); skillfully used democracy against itself, became chancellor January 30, 1933, appointed self dictator ( March 23, 1933), banned other parties, disbanded Reichstag (German parliament) * Evil & intelligent man, well organized, powerful speaker; rose power combination terror & skillful use propaganda; promised Germans jobs,
The Rise of Fascism * Italy: Benito Mussolini (Il Duce, the leader) first totalitarian dictatorship * 1919 started fascism movement; fascism: revolt against democratic values, including equality and individual freedom; to believe in state above all else & complete totalitarianism * Following WWI Italians punished allies Germany; Great Depression very negative * Benito Mussolini founded Italian Fascist Party, prime minister 1922; promptly turned Italy dictatorship (bloody & fast uprising; black shirted Italian fascists marched on Rome) * Goal turn Italy empire; restore greatness Roman Empire * Banned opposing political parties, workers unions, censored newspapers (stopped freedom of expression); used propaganda glorify * Believed Italians born greatness, should control world; invaded & captured Ethiopia, Albania * Supported “Black Shirts”, used force; formed alliance Germany, relied Nazis * Germany (Hitler’s Rise to Power) * Adolf Hitler originally from Austria (1889); fought WWI, felt Treaty of Versailles great injustice towards all Germans (pay large sums money, especially France & Belgium, led hyperinflation, destroyed economy, starvation, violence looking for work) * November 1923 Hitler tried take over government in Bavaria first step taking over Germany; “Beer Hall Putsch” (armed revolt) failed, put in jailed; wrote Mein Kampf (my struggle), book about personal struggles, threats against “enemies” of German people, stated Aryans perfect, Jews worst race * Became involved politics, rose head National Socialist Germans Workers’ Party (Nazi); skillfully used democracy against itself, became chancellor January 30, 1933, appointed self dictator ( March 23, 1933), banned other parties, disbanded Reichstag (German parliament) * Evil & intelligent man, well organized, powerful speaker; rose power combination terror & skillful use propaganda; promised Germans jobs,