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| Three reasons Facism was popular |
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| Government was ineffective, upset with treaties/nationalism, played on fears |
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| militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to a state and obedience to its leader |
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| giving in to an aggressor to keep peace |
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| . Analyze three reasons Great Britain and France so eager to appease the fascist powers |
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1. Great Britain and France didn’t have anyone to fight the war because the people didn’t the cause anymore
2. They were terrified of war because of the number of casualties from the last war.
3. Afraid of rising power of Germany |
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| Spanish Civil War, Munich Conference, Hitler signs appeasement with Britain and France |
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| War was the fascists vs. non-fascists. Spain had been a monarchy until 1931 when a republic was declared. In 1936 army leaders join Francisco Franco (fascist) in a revolt. Franco’s forces called nationalists, received help from Hitler and Mussolini Republicans, which is Spain’s elected government had an International Brigade (Lincoln) helping but had little chance against a professional army. Western democracies are semi-neutral but somewhat support Franco. In 1939 Republican resistance collapsed and Franco becomes Spain Fascist dictator. |
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| Is a meeting of Germany France and Britain and Italy. Britain and France agree that Hitler could take the Sudetenland and in exchange Hitler will respect Czechoslovakia’s new border. Less than 6 months after the Munich Conference Hitler takes Czechoslovakia and demands that Poland return the German port of Dunzig. The Poles refuse and look to Britain and France for help (Hitler thinks that neither nation will risk war). |
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| Hitler signs appeasement with France and Britain |
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| Hitler 1935 announces that Germany will not obey restrictions from the Versailles Treaty the league of nations. Germany wasn’t allowed to enter Rhineland but in 1936 it did, the French didn’t want to risk war. Britain gives in to Hitler to keep peace. The appeasement gives power to Hitler and France and Belgium were now open to attack from German troops and encourages Hitler to speed up military and territory expansion |
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| How were governments ineffective? |
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• Italy feels their democratic system isn’t fixing problems and they want a leader who will take action
• Italy wants to revive its economy (there is rising inflation, unemployment, and post-war economic issues
• Italy wants to Rebuild its armed forces |
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| Explain upset over treaties and need for national pride. |
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• Italy doesn’t gain territorial power at the peace treaties at the Paris Peace Conference 1919
• Germans were very upset at the reparations they were charged with at the Treaty of Versailles and felt betrayed by their leaders
• Because of the misdrawn lines that occurred following the treaties of WW1, there was much more nationalism and people wanted their leader to restore national pride |
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| Explain how fascists played on fear. |
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• In Italy, there was a definite fear of a workers revolt, because of the rising power of the middle class
• Italy and the Nazis were big on playing off of fear of a communist and socialist revolution. The Nazis even blamed the communists for a fire that destroy a parliamentary building to make people fear communists
• Italy, Germany, and Russia, had reigns of terror that shocked citizens into obedience |
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| Leader is the state and the state is the leader |
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| Hitler wants to control every aspect of life and uses propaganda and censorship to do so, School children had to join the Hitler Youth Groups, He believes in struggle and brutal force to maintain power, Jews are scapegoats of Germany |
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| Stalin calls for a command economy: a system in which the government made all economic decisions, political leaders identify the countries needs and determine how to fulfill them The Five-Year (1928-1933) plan introduced by Stalin set unreasonably high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, and electricity. Government controlled every aspect of the workers life and those who didn’t contribute to the economy were executed, Collective farms: The government seized 25 million private owned farms and combined them into government owned farms |
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| Benito Mussolini: a newspaper editor and politician who promised Italy to revive its economy and rebuild its armed forces who founded the Fascist Party. Mussolini plays on the fear of a worker revolt, and has campaigns of terror on communists and socialists |
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| Totalitarianism: a government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life. Totalitarianism has a dictator with absolute power, helps untied people under one goal, encourages unconditional loyalty, justifies/glorifies gov action, controls secular life, demands total obedience and sacrifice, denies basic liberties, has propaganda and advanced military weapons, uses police terror and scape goating |
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| 2 differences between Nazi Fascism and Soviet Communism |
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| Nazi Fascism was about conflict over race and there were definite ranks in society. Soviet Communism was a classless society that had conflict over classes |
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| describe 2 relations between Europe and Asia |
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| Japanese invade Manchuria and China even though it is in direct violation to the League of Nations and Europe is scared of the powerful nations in Asia starting a conflict. |
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| describe why/how Japan invaded China and Manchuria |
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• Militarists gain control of Japan and want to restore traditional control of the government to the military and made the emperor a symbol of state power
• Japan wants to solve country’s economic problems by foreign expansion
• Japans wants a Pacific empire including conquered China for raw materials, markets, and more space for the population (1930) |
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| The anger (revenge) and desperation created from World War one continued to the next decades., The rise of nationalism was a lasting impact of World War one, Splitting up the countries in the Middle East was a lasting problem created by World War one |
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