United States, Britain, and France remain democrat Millions turn to a new system of government fascism • restore economy • punish those responsible for hard times • revive national pride • remain loyal to the state and leaders • People who liked fascism were bothered by peace treaties and the Great Depression • Nationalism - wore uniforms - special salutes - mass rallies
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• United States, Britain, and France remain democratic• Millions turn to a new system of government
fascism• restore economy• punish those responsible for hard times• revive national pride• remain loyal to the state and leaders
• People who liked fascism were bothered by peace treaties and the Great Depression
• Nationalism- wore uniforms- special salutes- mass rallies
Nations must struggle in order to stay strong
FASCISM• believed each social class had own functions• Nationalists
COMMUNISM• dictatorship of working class (classless)• internationalists
SIMILARITIES• dictators rule• individual rights suffered• state was supreme • no democracy
• 1919 Paris Peace Conference• Rising population, decreasing # of jobs• Fear of a communist revolution
Promises: - strong leadership - improvement in government - more powerful army
Founded the Fascist Party in 1919- not popular at first, but later gains support from the middle classes, the aristocracy, & industrial leaders
Oct. 1922 30,000 Fascists march into Rome- Demand Mussolini to be in charge of the gov’t- King Victor Emmanuel III let Mussolini take over
Il Duce “leader”
- Demolishes democracy & all other political parties - Fascism; similar to totalitarianism
Radio stations & publications could only broadcast or publish Fascist workSecret police jailed “non-believers”
- Italy is a role model for Facists in other countries- Mussolini never gained as much power as Stalin or Hitler
The depression after the Wall Street Crash made many more people vote for the Nazis. In 1933 Von Papen convinced Hindenburg that Hitler should become Chancellor.
Hitler’s rise to power
• Nazi party had 30% of the Reichstag seats, but still not enough for control.
• 6 days before the next election, the Reichstag burns down
• Nazis find a prominent communist nearby with matches and smelling of fuel…
A communist was found inside the building. He admitted responsibility.
Chancellor Hitler was able to convince people that the Communists were trying to take power by terrorism.
He was able to have the Communists banned from the Reichstag.
March 1933HITLER CANRULE ALONEFOR FOUR
YEARS. THEREIS NO NEED TOCONSULT THEREICHSTAG.
With the Communists banned from the Reichstag Hitler was able to pass:
THE ENABLING ACT GAVE HITLER THE POWER TO MAKE HIS OWN LAWS. SO, HE BANNED ALL OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES!
THE ENABLING ACT GAVE HITLER THE POWER TO MAKE HIS OWN LAWS. SO, HE BANNED ALL OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES!
Hitler’s rise to power
• Hitler becomes nervous.• Nazi’s S.A (brownshirts) now
are over 2,000,000 and S.A. leaders are strong, especially Rohm.
• secret police force -Gestapo.
• The S.S. created - special military elite loyal only to Hitler.
June 1934
Now I have got rid of opposition political groups, I can now deal with opposition in my party. Ernst Rohm (an old friend), head of the S.A. is very unpopular with the German army leaders. They have the power to overthrow me.I’ve been worried about Rohm for a while, so this is a good excuse.
Hitler’s rise to power
• One of the first tasks assigned to the S.S. was to eliminate any possible competition from the S.A. leaders.
• They execute over 70 S.A.leaders and force the remaining S.A. to pledge an oath of allegiance to Hitler.