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What did France and Britain promise Italy to join the war?

Did they keep their promise?

A

Territories

No, they only received some of what they were promised

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After WW1, what was happening in Italy?

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Peasants seized land
Workers went on strike
There was post war inflation

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What did WW1 veterans from Italy face?

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unemployment

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The Italian government split and enveloped in ______?

Who steps in?

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Corruption

Benito Mussolini

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At first Mussolini was a ___ like his father

What did he later become?

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Socialist

Extreme Italian Nationalist

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At first Mussolini ______ Italy joining WW1, but he changed his views?

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opposed

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What ended Mussolini’s WW1 military service?

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Mortar bomb

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Mussolini’s name came from the Latin Fasces, which is what? What did it symbolize?

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A bundle of sticks wrapped around an ax

Unity and Authority

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What did Mussolini promise?

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To end corruption and government, restore order, and turn the Mediterranean sea into “Mare Nostrum” or our sea

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Mussolini organized his supporters into ______, they were also called____.

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Combat Squads

Black shirts

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What did Mussolinis supporters favor?

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violence over democratic process

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Where did the black shirts have a rally?
What was this rally called?
What was their intent?

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Naples
March on Rome
Go to Rome to demand gov. changes

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Who was the king of Italy?

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Victor Emmanuel III

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What did king Victor Emmanuel III do in response to the March on Rome? And why?

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Made Mussolini Italy’s prime minister b/c he feared a civil war

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What title did Mussolini take? What does it mean?

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Il Duce

The Leader

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How did Mussolini make more Fascists in gain control?

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Silenced the press and fixed elections

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Who was the pope? Why did he support Mussolini?

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Pope Pius XI

He recognized the Vatican city as an independent state

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In theory Italy remained a parliament_____. However it was a _____upheld by terror

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monarchy

dictatorship

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Mussolini brought the economy under ____ control.

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State

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Business, labor, government, and Fascists party controlled industry, agriculture and trade. What is this called?

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corporate

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Production increased but the workers could not ____ and ____ were kept low.

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Strike

Wages

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What did Mussolini’s greatest success come from ?

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Massive public works programs

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In Italy, what were men encourage to do?

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Become selfless warriors to fight for Rome

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What were women expected to do in Italy?

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Become mothers and don’t work

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What made children tough and taught them to obey strict military discipline? What else were they taught?
Fascists Youth groups | Nationalism
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After WW1, who was abdicated? | This was a threat for a ______ revolution?
Kaiser | Socialist
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What leaders signed an armistice ending fighting in WW1 and the Versailles Treaty?
moderate leaders
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What was the constitutional monarchy established in Germany?
Weimar Republic
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What did the Weimar Republic create? | What did it give to citizens?
Chancellor (prime minister) | rights like the US bill of rights
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What was the problem with the weimar republic?
It was weak
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True or False: The weimar republic was always under attack.
True
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Who demanded radical changes like in Russia?
Communists
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Who thought the weimar republic was very weak?
Conservatives
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What did the Germans blame the weimar republic for?
The treaty of versailles
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Where was Hitler born?
Austria
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Where did Hitler go when he was 16?
Vienna, Austria
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As a young boy Hitler was fascinated and obsessed with Germany's victory in what war?
Franco Prussian war
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Who was Hitlers father?
Alois
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What school rejected hitler when he was young and why
The art school in Austria because he couldn't draw the human figure
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What school rejected hitler when he was young and why?
The art school in Austria because he couldn't draw the human figure
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After being rejected from the art school, where was he rejected?
architecture school
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To support workers in Ruhr Valley, what did Germany print and what did it cause?
money | inflation
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What did the Western powers do to help with Germany's inflation?
Dawes plan
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What did Hitler's father do to him and his brother? What did his brother do in response?
He beat them | His brother ran away at age 7
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Hitler returned to Germany and fought in WW1. What was his job?
Runner between the trenches
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What did the military do when Hitler tried to stay in the military?
they wouldn't let him stay
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What happened to hitler that could have changed history?
he was almost killed by a british WW1 soldier
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What extremest group did hitler join? | What did hitler become two years later?
Nazis | leader
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What did Hitler lead that failed to overthrow the government? What happened to him?
The beer hall putsch
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What did Hitler lead that failed to overthrow the government? What happened to him?
The beer hall putsch | In jail for treason for 7 months
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What did he do in prison?
wrote a book called Mein Kampf
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Hitler believed in extreme_________, racism and anti-______.
nationalism | semitism
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What did Hitler believe a Jew is?
someone with one Jewish grandparent
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Who did Germany blame for Germany's defeat in WW1?
marxmist and jews
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What did Germany need to gain in order to create more living space?
lebensraum
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Hitler was determined to be the German leader called the _____?
fuhrer
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As ______ rose from the great depression, what also rose?
unemployment | Nazi membership
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Hitler promised to end _______, create_____, and defy the Versailles treaty by ______ Germany.
reparations jobs rearming
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To become chancellor, Hitler split the German parliament lower house called the ____?
Reichstag
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Hitler moved to build a Germany based on German __________
nationalism
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What was the first Reich?
Holy Roman empire
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What was the Second Reich?
Bismarck's empire
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What was the Third Reich?
German master race dominate for 1000 yrs
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What did Hitler do about the Great Depression?
Public works projects
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What state did Hitler begin to make?
Totalitarian state
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Who enforced Hitler's will?
Elite, black uniformed SS troops
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What was Hitler's secret police called?
gestapo
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What deprived Jews of German citizen laws?
Nuremberg laws
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Nazi led mobs attacked Jewish communities. Destroyed Jewish synagogues and businesses.
kristallnacht | "night of brokem glass"
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After kristallnacht, what was around the corner?
The "final solution"
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Hitler used children by indoctrinating them with _____ ideology and having their textbooks contain Nazi ______ views.
Nazi | racial
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What did nazis believe about woman? | Whatw ere they given ?
Should have limited roles and take care of children. | Given rewards for having lots of children.

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