1. Discussion
What do you know about Adolf Hitler and Nazism?

2. Fascism Rises in Europe
Fascism is loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader
Pushed for extreme nationalism
Peaceful states needed to be conquered
Fascist wore uniforms of certain colors, used special salutes and held mass rallies
Unlike communism, they believed that classes had place in society
Fascist were nationalists, communists were internationalists

3. Mussolini Takes Control of Italy
Italy not getting territory in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and high unemployment, Italy sees social unrest
Italy wanted a leader to take action
Local newspapers and politicians wanted Benito Mussolini
Founded Fascist Party in 1919

4. Mussolini Publicly criticized the Italian govt.
Fascist wearing black shirts attacked Communists & Socialists on the streets
Got support from middle class, the aristocracy and industrial leaders
October 1922, 30,000 Fascists marched on Rome demanding that Mussolini take control
Mussolini becomes il Duce’s

5. Mussolini Abolished democracy and outlawed all other political parties
Government censors
Allied with industrialists and large landowners to control the economy
Never had total control like Stalin did in Russia or Hitler in Germany

6. Hitler Rises to Power Hitler volunteered in the German Army during WWI
Won the Iron Cross twice for bravery
Hitler was a high school drop out
Hitler was very close to his mother
His grandfather suspected of being Jewish
He was rejected from Art School

7. Hitler’s Artwork

8. Hitler’s Artwork

10. Hitler’s Artwork

11. Hitler Rises to Power
After WWI, he joined a right wing political group
National Socialists German Workers Party (Nazi)
He set up a private militia (storm troopers or Brown Shirts)
His success as organizer and speaker led him to be chosen der Fuhrer
Plots to seize power of Germany

12. Swastika

13. Hitler Rises to Power Hitler is arrested for his plot
While in prison Hitler writes the book Mein Kampf
Sets the goals and beliefs for Germany
Germans as the master race
Jews, Slavs, & Gypsies were inferior
Declared Germany was overcrowded & needs more space

14. Hitler Rises to Power
To gain space, he promises Germany that he will conquer Eastern Europe and Russia
In 1924 he revives the Nazi Party after leaving prison
Most Germans did not like him
After the Great Depression started and U.S. money stop, Germans turned to Hitler