CW13 – Vocab p725

Postwar Uncertainty

• Italy, Russia and Germany all in chaos after WWI

• Going to give rise to extremism and fascism

Rise of Mussolini

• Italy was angry about broken promises of Treaty of Versailles

• Unemployment and depression led people to follow Mussolini’s Fascist Party

• Mussolini formed military force (Black Shirts) and marched into Rome, took over without a shot.

• Totalitarian state, first in modern history

• Glorified the state over the individual human rights.

• Sworn enemies of communists and socialists

• Appealed to the people of Italy which was in chaos.

Fascist State

Weimar Republic

• Germany sets up republic with chancellor in charge1. Super weak government2. Economic hardships because France controlled

resources3. Depression hit them in 1923

• Turn to Adolf Hitler

Nazi Party

• Depression forced people to look for answers

• Hitler despised the Weimar Republic, tried to overthrow

1. Extreme nationalism

2. Anti-Semitism

3. Need a living space

• Within a year, Hitler is the dictator of Germany

Third Reich

• Named it this to recall past glories (nationalism)

• Master race to dominate Europe for 1000 years.

• Totalitarian state emerges, Hitler formed Gestapo to combat enemies

• Nuremberg Laws outlawed Jewish citizenship (Kristallnacht)

• Hitler Youth and purifying the German culture.