Fascism

Fascism

Roman Symbol of Power(The Fascisti=bundle of sticks)

Fascist Beliefs

• 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

MussoliniItaly1922

Marches on Rome and Assumes Power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ6HGYk2RcA

Il Dulce

Masculine Aspect of FascismPlay 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 theThe 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 – Fascists- Franco- Till 1975

Guernica :1936 Hitler and Mussolini aid Franco

Germany Annexes Austria

• 1938

World Drifts Toward War

• 1930’s Japan steps-up Invasion of china play

• Racially Superior in Asia

• China = Raw Materials

• Rape of Nanjing

• USA-Japan Collide in the Pacific– Hawaii– Philippines

On The Road To War• Many Germans in The Sudetenland- Hitler

Moves to “protect German blood”

• And Lebensraum=Living Space

The Munich Conference1938

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 PowersBy 1940 Japan, Italy and

Germany were allied