Fascism Flashcards
Driving force behind fascism in Italy
Mussolini
Thugs, enforcers of fascism in Italy
Blackshirts
Mussolini’s attempt to seize power, threatened revolution.
March in Rome
Guarantee fascists majority in legislature
Acerbic Laws
Handed catholic occupied land over to Mussolini
Lateran Laws
Target of Italian Expansion
Ethiopia
Where new gov in Germany was declared
Weimar
Wrecked middle class, where fear followed
Inflation
Communists, fascists, gov wants total control of citizens
Totalitarianism
Ultra nationalistic. Aryan superiority in Germany
Fascism
Self sufficiency (for fascists)
Autarky
Under attack by fascists
Democracy
Hitlers attempt to copy Mussolini goes badly. Failed coup’d etat
Munich putsch
Derived from national fascist movement in Germany
Nazi
Also known as stormtroopers; nazi equivalent of the blackshirts
Brown shirts
‘Living space’
Lebensraum
Aryans are superior to all other races
Attain myth
President of the Weimar Republic
Hindenburg
Former chancellor. Ally of Hindenburg
Von papen
Parliament building burning down. Used to push enabling act
Reichstag fire
Emergency powers given to hitler
Enabling act
Series of attacks/murders on Hitlers enemies
Night of the long knives
Restrictions placed on Jews in Germany
Nuremberg Laws
Nazi secret police
Gestapo
Propaganda minister
Josef Goebbels
In charge of SS
Heinrich Himmler
SS
Protection squad ‘elite unit’
Fascist dictator in Spain
Franco
Fascist party of Spain
Falange
Communist parliamentary unit
International brigades
Town in Spain. Republican stronghold that got destroyed by fascist
Gurenica
Formed to stand up to Hitler
Stresa front
Giving hitler whatever in the exchange of peace
Appeasement
March of German troops into the Rhineland.
Remilitarization of Rhineland
Union with Austria deriving from terms in the TOV
Anschluss
Hitler wants but it belongs To Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
President of Czechoslovakia
Edvard Benes
PM of Britain, established appeasement to Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Agreement between Hitler and Chamberlain. Grants no military assistance To Czechoslovakia
Munich Conference
Pact between Hitler and Stalin to invade Poland
Nazi-Soviet Pact
‘Lightning War’ new strategy of warfare relying on hard striking units of Panzers and artillery to drive deep into enemy territory
Blitzkrieg