Fascism and the Start of World War II

Andrew Merriam http://andrikyrychok.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/world-war-2.jpg

Start of Fascism

• Fascism is a political philosophy or government that advocates a centralized autocratic government lead by one party. It is radical and authoritarian political idea

• Facism began in the 1920’s under Benito Mussolini in Italy, in the early 1930’s led by Adolf Hitler in Germany and finally in Japan in the 1930’s

• Fascism had tight control over everything from the economy to the people social life.

• Fascist governments took power by using thugs and armed men to cause violence and fear within the nations population.

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Start of Fascism Italy • Italy had many wartime hardship which not only included loss of

people and property but economic depression too. • Throughout the late 1910’s and early 1920’s many seizures of

land spread throughout Italy causing labor strikes. • Mussolini gather and organized groups of thugs and ex-soldiers as

his combantants calling them Fascio di combattimento. • Mussolini dressed his combatants in black uniforms to help him

cause fear. • In the year 1921 when Mussolini lost the election he sent his

combatants loose killing around 3000 men. • Mussolini started that the country was going into chaos, and if

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Start of Fascism in Germany

• After World War I, Germany was suffering greatly from economic depression and the loss of many of their people.

• Adolf Hitler looked up to Mussolini, and like him Hitler started his own group of armed men called the SA

• Hitler was extremely racist and wanted to create the perfect race.

• Like Mussolini, Hitler used fear and the instability of the German government to help him get elected.

• Hitler was able to recover the German economy and started to gain supporters, untill he invaded Poland and started World War II

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Japan Before WWII• While going through the Meiji rstoration, Japan had had great success in

reorganization of their government, administration, economy, industry and finances.

• Japan started to seize colonies for itself. • Japan defeated China in 1904 and became the dominant power.• During 1910’s Japan was able to increase its manufacturing by 72% and its

national income by 40% calling their large scale companies zaibatsu. • In 1919, Japan was seated as on of the Five Great Powers.• Japan started to become on of the worlds leading nations in technology

before the war too.

• The zabitsu started to undermine the peoples democratic practice . In the late 1920’s Japans took a step economic drop with 50% of its exports dropped.

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Decent towards WWII

• Even with the League of Nations found in 1920, the League of Nations was not able to keep peace lousing many of peace keeping missions.

• The league of nations was not able to stop Hitler and Germany from attacking Poland and many other countries.

• Many meetings between the world were held trying to keep peace, but many of the agreements were broken.

• The start of World War II was on September 1st when German forces invaded Poland.

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