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Fascism - answer✔a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and
racism and no tolerance of opposition
Ideas of fascism were borrowed from whom? - answer✔Darwin (social darwinism), Freud (men
act on passion), Le Bon (people act differently in crowds than by themselves), Schopenhaur (life
controlled by the will), Nietzsche (don't avoid pain, seek it out)
What does social darwinism say? - answer✔If people are more rich and powerful, it is because
they deserve it/were better
How did Hitler and Mussolini get power and transform their countries? - answer✔Countries
desperate after WWI and economies were destroyed
Blackshirts - answer✔Mussolini's private army that broke up strikes and socialist meetings,
gaining Mussolini popularity
Mussolini's history - answer✔Family growing up=socialist, opposed to WWI, got kicked out of
the socialist group and became anti-socialist
Hitler's history - answer✔Inspired by Mussolini, joined army in WWI and loved it, after the war
her built up the Nazi party
Beer Hall Putsch - answer✔1923 - failed attempt at revolution, Hitler put in jail and wrote a
book
How did Hitler win a democratic election? - answer✔Said he hated communism
Brownshirts - answer✔name given to Nazi thugs who violently silenced anyone opposed to
Hitler's ways; also called storm troopers
What are the characteristics of fascism? - answer✔irrationalism, racism, elitism, totalitarianism,
corporate state, war and imperialism
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What does irrationalism mean in fascism? - answer✔It is the rejection of the idea that men are
reasonable. You can't build a society based on the idea that men are reasonable. Men are driven
by instincts and passions
What does racism mean in fascism? - answer✔Not a requirement of fascism (Mussolini wasn't
racist), anti-semitism - hating jews (Hitler)
Where did Hitler get anti-semitism ideas? - answer✔Authur de Gobineau (race was key to the
rise and fall of great civilization - inter-breeding will bring downfall of society), Houston
(history was a struggle between Aryan good and Jewish evil)
What book did Hitler write? - answer✔Mein Kampf
What are Hitler's 3 types of races? - answer✔Founders of culture (those who can build/maintain
civilization - Aryans), Culture bearers (those who can't build great civilization, but can maintain
one - Russians, Polish, Slovs, Japanese), Destroyers of culture (those who can't
build/maintain/take orders in a civilization, danger to civilization - Jews, blacks, gypsies,
Africans)
What does elitism mean in fascism? - answer✔People are unequal, normally only a few people
are capable of governing or running all
What does totalitarianism mean in fascism? - answer✔Mussolini - everything for the state,
nothing against the state, nothing outside the state; Individual secondary to the state, 1st concern
is the state and 2nd concern is for yourself
What does the corporate state mean in fascism? - answer✔3rd economic path/way of running the
country; rejecting socialism, communism, capitalism; private property would be in private hands,
but controlled/directed by the state
What does war/imperialism mean in fascism? - answer✔War is positive, you seek it out; war is
good, people unequal makes imperialism a necessity, if you are not attacking, that's not good.
3 words to do with fascism? - answer✔believe, fight, obey
What did Thomas More say in Utopia? - answer✔Everyone contributes what they can and only
take what they need. If this happened, it would be Utopia
Socialism - answer✔a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
What is modern socialism? - answer✔Reaction to classic liberalism, working together to
overcome problems, not working alone
