Fascism Notes

Germany Notes
-No dictator, government was Weimar Republic
-President above chancellor, above Reichstag
-Hitler part of National Socialist Worker Party
-places other nazis into Reichstag
-enough nazis to vote hitler into power as chancellor
-prez dies, hitler takes advantage becomes president/supreme ruler
-Propaganda, censorship of media, history, religion, sports, music
-banned Unions "unequal"
-controls army forms SS
-hitler promotes eradication of jewz
Italy Notes
-Versailles Treaty: italy feels left out from the spoils, get pissed off
-gov loses control over people, people are angry
-Benito Mussolini with Black Shirts march on rome
-King gives Benito Secretary to ensure there is no fighting (backed by Pope duh)
-afraid of civil war
-keeps CAPITALIST ECONOMY

1. After both rulers come into power, Hitler forces people to do what he wants, while Mussolini already has public backing and doesn't need to force them to do anything.
2. Italy keeps Capitalist economy while Germany does not.
3. Italy's economy was ruined from fighting in the war rather from losing it.
4. Hitler used his speeches in order to gain popularity, while Benito used his force in order to gain power.
5. In Germany, Hitler banned religion while in Italy, religion was used to gain power in Mussolini's case