Post on 12-Jul-2015
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Fascism in Italy
Nazism in Germany
Affect of Nazism in Germany
Tune up for War: Spanish Civil War
Democracy in distress On winning side Lost 700k men, $15
billion Losses it cannot afford Does not get the
territory promised by allies prior to entering the war
Rich North/ vs poor South
Inflation/Unemployment
Mussolini initially a socialist
By end of WWI forms fascist party
aggressive, anti-socialist Pugnacious nature seems
to be good choice for Italy in crisis 1922
Blackshirts – fascists paramilitaries – march on Rome late 1922
City occupied/premier resigns
King asks Mussolini to form new government – Il Duce
Statism Nationalism Militarism Changes laws to
benefit Fascist party Women Propaganda Rapprochement with
the Church
Adolf Hitler – Austrian background
Aspiring artist Grows up in Vienna
during time of Karl Luger
Joins German Army beginning of WWI
Gas victim, wins medal for bravery
National Socialist Workers Party (Nazis)
Initially fairly regional Ideology Der Führer Brownshirts - SA 1923 Beer Hall Putsch Imprisioned Mein Kampf
1932 Hitler for president, loses
Nazis win 37% of seats in Reichstag
Chancellor Reichstag Fire Third Reich
SA vs SS Night of the Long
Knives Concentration Camp –
Dachau Gestapo Goebbels and
propaganda Antisemitism
Eugenics – racial purity 1933 law on sterilization on
“hereditarily tainted” people Crackdown on mentally ill,
homosexuals, “degenerates,” physically disabled
Nuremberg Laws, 1935 Jews lose citizenship Not able to marry non Jews Have to wear yellow Star of
David 1938 Kristallnacht
1933 Hitler pulls out of League of Nations
1935 rearms Germany Conscription Luftwaffe Restarts Naval
program 1936 reoccupies the
Rhineland
1936, War breaks out in Spain, between Republican Government and Far Right military leaders
Francisco Franco – fascist, supported by Hitler and Mussolini Republican leaders supported by USSR Both sides pour in material Luftwaffe training grounds Guernica
1938 Anschluss GrossDeutchland!
Munich Conference Peace in our time
Pact of Steel Soviet German Non
Aggression pact