Transcript Fascism Rises in Europe

Discussion
• What do you know about Adolf
Hitler and Nazism?
Fascism Rises in Europe
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Fascism is loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader
Pushed for extreme nationalism
Peaceful states needed to be conquered
Fascist wore uniforms of certain colors, used special salutes
and held mass rallies
• Unlike communism, they believed that classes had place in
society
• Fascist were nationalists, communists were
internationalists
Mussolini Takes Control of Italy
• Italy not getting territory in the
1919 Paris Peace Conference
and high unemployment, Italy
sees social unrest
• Italy wanted a leader to take
action
• Local newspapers and
politicians wanted Benito
Mussolini
• Founded Fascist Party in 1919
Mussolini
• Publicly criticized the Italian govt.
• Fascist wearing black shirts
attacked Communists & Socialists
on the streets
• Got support from middle class, the
aristocracy and industrial leaders
• October 1922, 30,000 Fascists
marched on Rome demanding that
Mussolini take control
• Mussolini becomes il Duce’s
Mussolini
• Abolished democracy and
outlawed all other political parties
• Government censors
• Allied with industrialists and large
landowners to control the
economy
• Never had total control like Stalin
did in Russia or Hitler in Germany
Hitler Rises to Power
• Hitler volunteered in the German
Army during WWI
• Won the Iron Cross twice for
bravery
• Hitler was a high school drop out
• Hitler was very close to his
mother
• His grandfather suspected of
being Jewish
• He was rejected from Art School
Hitler’s Artwork
Hitler’s Artwork
Hitler’s Artwork
Hitler Rises to Power
• After WWI, he joined a right
wing political group
• National Socialists German
Workers Party (Nazi)
• He set up a private militia (storm
troopers or Brown Shirts)
• His success as organizer and
speaker led him to be chosen
der Fuhrer
• Plots to seize power of Germany
Swastika
Hitler Rises to Power
• Hitler is arrested for his plot
• While in prison Hitler writes
the book Mein Kampf
• Sets the goals and beliefs for
Germany
• Germans as the master race
• Jews, Slavs, & Gypsies were
inferior
• Declared Germany was
overcrowded & needs more
space
Hitler Rises to Power
• To gain space, he promises
Germany that he will conquer
Eastern Europe and Russia
• In 1924 he revives the Nazi Party
after leaving prison
• Most Germans did not like him
• After the Great Depression
started and U.S. money stop,
Germans turned to Hitler