Important Concepts Friday, April 15, 2022 3:04 PM Ideologies Features of Fascism • Nationalism: ○ View of the nation state, its culture and history, as a unifying force ○ Desire to remove foreign influences ○ Own nation seen as superior to other nations • Militarism: a policy of aggressive military preparedness • Social Unity: Opposes class-based divisions in society and promotes collective national society • Social Darwinism: ○ The belief that races have evolved as superior to other races • Authoritarianism: principle of blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action National Socialism (Nazism): • totalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler • a much extreme version of fascism Patriotism: the feeling of love, devotion, and sense of attachment to one's country Marxism: society with no class. For him, all Western states start with capitalism. They then evolve into socialism and eventually communism => communism should be the ultimate goal. Imperialism: a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Totalitarianism: Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. German phases Kaiserreich: authoritarian Monarchy fromm 1871 - 1918 Weimar Republic: parlamentarian democratic German government from 1919 to 1933. Drittes Reich: totalitarian Nazideutschland from 1933 - 1945 Parties German National People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei DNVP): national-conservative party in Germany during the Weimar Republic National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei NSDAP): successor of DNVP, far-right political party, created and supported Nazism HISTORY Page 1 Communism vs. Socialism
