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Mar 27, 2015
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