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05 FASCISM - Coggle Diagram
05 FASCISM
CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCIST REGIMES
Totalitarian regimes -> Italy/Germany
Common features
Totalitarianism
No rights outside of the interests of the state
Single party and its official ideology
Irrationalism
Violence, war, anti-intellectualism and strength
"Weak"treated without respect and were killed
Inhuman policies for: homosexuals, some races...
Radical nationalism
Stated -> nation itself was superior to all others
Denied class conflicts
Racism and xenophobia
Belief in division of humanity superior/inferior races
Anti-communism, anti-liberalism and anti-feminism
Rejected class struggles stating they could overcome it
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Imperialism and militarism
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ITALIAN FASCISM
After WWI because of
Italians’ deep
frustration
Lack of attention given by the Treaties of Paris
Feeling of humiliation due to the scant compensation
Post-war economic crisis
Social response ->
Biennio rosso
Socialist + anarchists
Created workers councils
Bankruptcy of the liberal parliamentary system
No party won
Irrationalism
Advocated anti-intellectualism
Legitimised the use of violence
1921
Benito Mussolini founded the
National Fascist Party
Violent attacks against workers
Confronting revolutionary demands of biennio rosso
1922
Blackshirts undertook the March on Rome
King Victor Emmanuel III entrusted Mussolini
Formation of a new government
1925
Assassination of socialist deputy Giacomo Matteott
Parliament was dissolved
Fascist dictatorship
was installed
State control politics, economy, social media
Political repression
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1929 (crisis)
Production fall, increase unemployement
Policy of public works done
Propaganda apparatus
Image of Italy as a great power
Mussolini’s Italy allied --> Hitler’s Germany/Japanese Empire
BENITO MUSSOLINI
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NAZISM
Deflationary policies also caused social unrest
NSDAP created,
Nazi Party
Leader was Adolf Hitler
Ideology
Superiority of the Aryan race
Murder of disabled people
Anti-Semitism
Anti-communism
German's expansion to acieve Lebennsraum
Revanchism
1923
Nazi Party took advantage of the inflation
Munich Putsch, a failed coup d’état
Great Depression had an immediate impact
Collapse of banks and industries
Poverty; unemployment
1933
No winning party
Hitler appointed as prime minister
Imposed a dictatorship
1934
Hitler established
Third Reich
Economic growth was ending
Expand its empire
Nazis exalted Aryan race through propaganda
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June 1934
Nazi crops
SS
attacked SA
Many SA leaders were assasinated
Night of the Long Knives
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ANTI-SEMITISM
Discrimination against Jews
Ideological foundations of the Nazi regime
Expressed in the Nürnberg Laws
Nazis began propaganda against jews
Prohibited rights
THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS
Nazi militants/volunteers assaulted Jewish neighbourhoods
