Fascism
Roman Symbol of Power
(The Fascisti=bundle of sticks)
Fascist Beliefs
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Extreme nationalism
Only the strong survive
Government directs the economy
Regimentation of society = All citizens
become a soldier for the cause
• One leader and one political party
• Unlike communism, property and social
classes have their place
Mussolini
Italy
1922
Marches on Rome and Assumes
Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ6HGYk2RcA
Il Dulce
Masculine Aspect of Fascism
Play Mussolini youtube
Hitler Takes Control
Germany
1933-1945
• 1933 Nazi’s Take Power – Burning of the
Reichstag
• 1934 Enabling Act – complete authority
• Puts millions of Germans to work
• War on Jews
– 1935 Nuremberg Laws
– 1938 Crystal Night
– 1941 Final Solution
Hitler Defies the Treaty
Appeasement and the
The Destruction of Versailles
• 1933 Germany starts militarization
• 1936 Marches on The Rhineland
Spanish Civil War 1931- 1939
Republicans- Liberals Leftist
• Communist element
destroys unity
• Attack on church politically
fatal
Nationalists – FascistsFranco- Till 1975
Guernica :1936 Hitler and
Mussolini aid Franco
Germany Annexes Austria
• 1938
World Drifts Toward War
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1930’s Japan steps-up Invasion of china
Racially Superior in Asia
China = Raw Materials
Rape of Nanjing
USA-Japan Collide in the Pacific
– Hawaii
– Philippines
play
On The Road To War
• Many Germans in The Sudetenland- Hitler
Moves to “protect German blood”
• And Lebensraum=Living Space
The Munich Conference
1938
Chamberlain
“We have peace in our time”
Six Months Later
• Hitler rolls in his tanks to take most
Czechoslovakia
Non Aggression Pact
• Hitler and Stalin agree not to go war if
• Germany invades Poland
September Germany Invades
Poland
• The Blitzkrieg – Lighting War
• WWII Begins September 1st 1939. England
and France declare war on Germany
• USA will not enter until Dec 8th 1941
• Two and one half years after the war begins
Hitler “The Great War lord”
• The Conquest of Poland
• Hitler, without a threat of the Soviet Union
will attack Poland
• Stalin will get half of Poland
Japan Expands Their Empire
The Axis Powers
By 1940 Japan, Italy and
Germany were allied