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Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
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Fascism in Italy
1. What new political group did Mussolini create?
2. What is fascism?
3. List two reasons why fascism grew in Italy under Mussolini?
4. Based on what we have talked about in class, why do think that Mussolini was given power by the king of Italy?
5. The police where given power to arrest people that committed political and nonpolitical crimes. Why was that a
dangerous thing?
6. What was Mussolini’s title? What did it mean?
The Fascist State
1. How did Mussolini use the media to help spread his fascist ideas?
2. What was the benefit of the fascist youth programs? What did they do in these programs?
3. Explain the fascists’ social attitudes. How did Mussolini see women?
4. Was Mussolini able to control his people as much as Stalin and Hitler?
5. What was the compromise between the Catholic Church and Mussolini’s fascist state?
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Hitler and Nazism
1. How successful was Hitler in school during his early life?
2. Hitler joined a right wing political group in Munich around 1919. What was the name of that political party?
3. What did Nazi or NSDAP stand for?
4. How many people were in the Nazi party after two years?
5. The Nazi party had a militia. What were they known as?
6. What was the Beer Hall Putsch? What was the result?
7. What is Mein Kampf?
8. Hitler links Nationalism, anti-Semitism, and anticommunism together. What was his reason for doing so?
9. What is Lebensraum? Why did Hitler want it?
Rise of Nazism
1. What does Hitler realize the Nazi’s need to do if they want power legally?
2. How long did it take for Hitler to get the Nazi’s to 800,000 members?
3. What is the Reichstag?
4. Why do you think that economic issues contributed to Hitler’s rise to power?
The Nazi’s Take Control
1. After 1930, President Hindenburg was the leader of Germany. Which groups wanted Hitler to have more power?
2. What was the Enabling Act? How did it effect Hitler’s power?
3. Which group did the Nazi’s blame their problems on?
4. What were concentration camps? Who went to these camps?
5. Hitler became the sole leader of Germany in 1934. Why was this dangerous?
The Nazi State, 1933-1939
1. Define Aryan.
The State and Terror
1. Who was the “SS” and what were their jobs?
2. Who was in charge of the “SS”? What was his chief goal of the “SS”?
Economics
1. What was Hitler’s key to solving the unemployment issues? What does that mean?
2. How did the Nazis’ and Hitler’s economic success help win over the German people?
Women and Nazism
1. Why were women so important to the Nazis? Men?
2. What jobs were women supposed to get? Why?
Anti-Semitic Policies
1. List the details of the Nuremburg Laws.
2. What was Kristallnacht?
3. What happened with the Jews and transportation? Public Buildings? Retail Stores?
4. Why do you think Jews were encouraged to emigrate from Germany?
Culture and Leisure
1. Why did the Nazi party want all of its citizens to have radios?
2. What was Joseph Goebbels’ job? What did he think about film?
3. Why were leisure activities seen as ways to control people in totalitarian states?