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1
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Fasci di combattimento (Combat Groups)

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-Anti-socialists

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Black shirts

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  • Ex-servicemen,middle class youths, anti-communists
  • wealthier
  • used for intimidation to gain support
3
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First past the post

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-Each electoral district has ridings, party with most won ridings becomes gov
majority-50% or over
minority-less than 50%

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Proportional Representation

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  • All political groups represented in proportion to their strength in electorate
  • results in many minority governments that cant get laws to be passed (unstable)
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Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)

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  • Mediterranean
  • Wanted “glories that once were Rome”
  • Led to invasion of Ethiopia
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Fascism

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  • Against socialism,liberalism,democracy
  • against people thinking for themselves
  • aggressive nationalism,
  • action over thought
7
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March on Rome

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  • Mussolini threatened to march on Rome
  • Parliament asked King to sign emergency legislation to deal with crisis
  • King feared civil war , asked Mussolini to form gov
8
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II Duce

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  • Leader (Mussolini)

- Title, feeds his ego

9
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The Acerbo Law

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  • Assure 2/3 majority in chamber of deputies for party got most votes in election
  • ended proportional representation
  • allowed Mussolini a huge majority
10
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OVRA

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-Mussolini’s secret police

11
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Fascist Grand council

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  • Trade unions abolished

- Elections cancelled, chamber of deputies chosen by fascist Grand council

12
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Lateran Accords

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  • Church-Mussolini
  • Church got control over religious education in schools
  • Official state religion =catholic
  • Pope rule own state-The Vatican
  • Mussolini got sanction by church
  • Last possible opposition dealt with
13
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Corporate State

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  • Management + workers ran everything together
  • Aimed at taking away rights of workers to join trade unions
  • Economic planning centralized
14
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Bloodless Revoltion

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  • Kaiser fled to Holland

- Republic proclaimed

15
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Weimar Constitution

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-Federal republic with national +state gov established at Wiemar

Reichstag

  • Legislative body
  • Practiced proportional representation
  • Universal vote

Reichtrat

  • Represented states
  • not much power

Executive

  • President elected independently
  • not much power, some control over chancellor
  • real power in cabinet , headed by chancellor
  • Chancellor: leader of largest party in Reichstag
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Beer hall Putsch

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  • Hitler,Ludendorff
  • March on Berlin
  • Poorly planned, leaders arrested sent to jail
17
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Mein Kampft (My struggle)

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-Book Hitler wrote in jail
-5 main ideas
Lebenstraum: living space
Denounced treaty of Versailles (reparations)
Aryan myth: German superior (Nationalism)
Anti-communists:Stalin worried
Anti-Semitism:Jewish

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Weaknesses of Weimar Republic

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  • Associated with treaty of Versailles (this gov had signed it)
  • associated with inflation +collapse of mark
  • proportional representation means no clear majority
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National Socialist German Workers Party

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  • Leader Hitler
  • Nazi
  • Created S.A or Brown Shirts ( political storm trooper)
20
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Lebenstraum

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-Inferior races east of Germany make room for superior Germans

21
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President Hindenburg

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-Refused to give Hitler (leader or largest single party) chancellorship, instead coalition formed

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Von Papen

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  • Former chancellor
  • Hitler’s strength fading
  • Papen + Hindenburg thought could appoint Hitler as chancellor and use him as tool against communism
23
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Enabling Act

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  • H frustrated with lack of majority, called another election
  • Used brown shirts to harass opposition
  • Reichstag burnt, blamed on communism
  • Hitler used this as evidence of impeding communist revolution
  • gave him emergency powers
24
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Night of the long Knives

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  • Hitler murdered some internal challengers
  • Rohm, leader of Brown shirts
  • Gained support of army who worried that Rohm and S.A would take over army
25
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Shutzstaffel (S.S)

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-Hitler’s police
Waffen- Military,special opps
Einzeingruppen- Holocaust, round up Jews

26
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Why Jews?

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-Previously not allowed land or guilds (trades)
-Became merchant traders
trading becomes vital
Rich
-Controlled money, Hitler blamed problems on them
-Some Jews part of creation of Weimar republic that signed treaty

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Nuremburg Laws

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  • Anti-Jewish laws
  • All Jews had to wear star of David
  • Forced Jews to forfeit careers and property
  • restrictions on marriage
  • Loss of citizenship
28
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Volk

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-Racially pure people

29
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Fuhrer

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-Hitler’s title

30
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Nazi Germany

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-Only party allowed
-Freedoms abolished
-Education changed to serve interests of Nazi’s
-Hitler youth
Gestapo:
-secret police force
-enforce obedience to dictators commands
-cruel,feared
-concentration camps established and political opponents imprisoned

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Goering

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  • Minister of air

- Organizer of Luftwaffe (German air force)

32
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Goebbels

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-Minister of propaganda

33
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Himmler

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-Chief of SS, later head of Gestapo

34
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Heydrich

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-Controlled Gestapo

35
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Autarky

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-Reduce German dependence of world market for essential raw materials

36
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National Labor service

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-Set up to employ people on wide range of public works - in agriculture, land reclamation,building schools,hospitals,construction or autobahn (German highways)

37
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Other Work opportunites

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  • Conscription of men into armed forces
  • expansion of armaments industry
  • creation of air force
  • promoted hard work, got special rewards-incentive
  • compulsory civic services
38
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Kristallnacht (Crystal night)

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-Jewish shops,synagogues,homes ransacked, many Jews imprisoned

39
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Wannsea Conference

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  • How to kill more people faster

- came up with death camps

40
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Glieshaltung

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  • Nazification of everything

- control every aspect