Prompt:
Compare the rise to power of fascism in Italy and Germany.
Thesis: In both Italy and Germany, the fear of social, economic, and political disorder created a path for Fascism to rise under the rule of Mussolini in Italy and Fascism/Nazism under Hitler in Germany.
Fascism/Nazism: Authoritarian, action-oriented, leader identified with state
Italy
Mussolini
No coalition between socialists, liberals, and popolari (Christian democracts)
Fear of communist revolution, socialism, and disorder made people look up to Fascism
Mussolini goes from left to right politics
Squadristi
armed Fascists attacked socialist offices and newspapers
used lots of violence, wore black shirts
March on Rome
Bluff that scared government into giving Fascists power
Acerbo Law
any party that wins 25% of votes in the next election would gain 2/3 of the seats in parliamentOVRA
Young Fascists
Lateran Accords
the papacy recognized the state of Italy, with Rome as its capital
also recognized Catholicism as "sole religion of the state" with the return of the church urging support of the fascist regime
Germany
Weimar republic
German democratic state didn't have good strong leaders
couldn't change basic structure of Germany
inflation, economic losses, & Great Depression set up the stage for Nazism/Hitler
Hitler
Mein Kampf
4 major influences on Hitler
Georg von Schoherer: urged the union of all Germany into 1 national state
Karl Lueger: anti-sentimism
Lanz von Liebenfels: anti-sentimim
Richard Wagners: made operas that spoke of a boundless will to power and a need to dominate
Enabling Act
government can dispense without consitutional forms for 4 years while it issued law that would deal with the countries problems
Prompt:
Compare the rise to power of fascism in Italy and Germany.
Thesis: In both Italy and Germany, the fear of social, economic, and political disorder created a path for Fascism to rise under the rule of Mussolini in Italy and Fascism/Nazism under Hitler in Germany.
Fascism/Nazism: Authoritarian, action-oriented, leader identified with state
Italy
- Mussolini
- No coalition between socialists, liberals, and popolari (Christian democracts)
- Fear of communist revolution, socialism, and disorder made people look up to Fascism
- Mussolini goes from left to right politics
- Squadristi
- armed Fascists attacked socialist offices and newspapers
- used lots of violence, wore black shirts
- March on Rome
- Bluff that scared government into giving Fascists power
- Acerbo Law
- any party that wins 25% of votes in the next election would gain 2/3 of the seats in parliamentOVRA
- Young Fascists
- Lateran Accords
- the papacy recognized the state of Italy, with Rome as its capital
- also recognized Catholicism as "sole religion of the state" with the return of the church urging support of the fascist regime
GermanySources:
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/hist/jpetropoulos/holocaust/laterantreaty.htm