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Fascism
Common features in fascism
• Propaganda • Totalitarian state • Fear of communism• Single party government with one leader• Control of the media (propaganda)• Police and army used to maintain controll
Causes for the rise of fascism
• Economic depression • Unstable governemt• Fear of communism • Strong leaders rising to the fore • The effects of WW1 and the
disappointment in the treaty of Versailles
What did they favour • Extreme nationalism: nation all important
individual subject to the nation, nation must expand and conquer
• Cult of the leader: leader must be obeyed: names given to the leader
• Use of violence was acceptable to achieve power
• Racialism: the race line must be kept pure • Use of symbols • Rewritten historical events
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