Consolidation of Power
Factors Hitler Mao Mussolini
Violence • 1934- Night of the Long Knives- • 28,000 revolutionaries executed in Guangdong • 1924- Murder of Matteotti-
Fear of SS & SA amalgamation- • Seizure of GMD property fascist extremists removed
killed Ernst Rohm- SA Leader • Laogai- 25 Million dead, inhospitable, starvation • MNVP- 30,000 legal militia
• Gestapo & SS- terror, torture- • 1927- OVRA
200,000 member (1935)
• Espionage on Austrian, Czech
nationals
Political • 1933 Enabling Act • 1949- 10 parties, 1952- 1 • 1922- Rule by emergency
(Opposi- • July 1933- Banning of all other • Centra People’s Council- 6 Vice Chairman under Mao- decree
tion) parties but all already dissolved unchallengeable • Fascist Grand Council-
apart from SPD • Regional RepresentationC Chairman, Party Secretary state & party one
• January 1934- State gvts. broken • 3 & 5 Antis- CCP cadres & businessman, workers de- • 1923- Acerbo Laws- 2/3
up all power back to Berlin nounce bosses seats majority
• 3 Nazi officials in CabinetC Con- • 1950- 700,000 GMD executed • 1924- Aventine Secession-
trol Interior and Prussia Police 150 left leaving Fascist
(2/3 of country) with 65% 1925- Duce pro-
• 1934- Oath of Allegiance to claimed
Hitler • 1925- Press Laws
• 1926- Decree of Public Se-
curity & Law for Defence
of State
• 1928 Elections- only fas-
cist syndicate could vote
• 1928- VE3 could not chose
PM
Social Op- • Cumulative antisemitismC Jews • Opium addiction- dealers shot, poppy fields executed • Banned Trade unions
position banned from civil service, 3 day Campaign to reduce city gangs- 130 bandits in Guang- • 19260 Rocco Law- only
boycott, Nuremberg Laws 1935 dong Fascist trade union
• Banned trade unions • Hundred Flower’s Campaign & Anti-Rightist Movement- • 1936- Fascist Textbooks-
• Nazi Syllabus- Physical (boys), 1 million arrested women not taught politics
domestic (girls), 1200 professors • Danwei & Dangan- surveillance, registry
fired, 97% of teachers in Nazi • Religious & Youth groups all shut
Education • ArtsC Censored, Western Music Banned, Chinese Opera,