HIS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hoover Moratorium, Italians, Social Darwinism
21 Apr 2016
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End of ww1 kaiser flees germany; socialist party becomes dominant party in. Made up basically of the unemployed veterans. In italy disaffected veterans feel betrayed and look to right wing ideology b/c of treaty of versailles: they feel like italy should have gotten more out of ww1. Benito mussolini becomes leader of war veterans and promises them and the. Italian people that he can make italy great again: he needs to get rid of democracy though, 1922 he takes power and turn italy into a single party state (fascism, father of fascism , de facto right wing dictatorship. Mussolini organized italian state and there was hope he would rid italy of. Mussolini"s rise to power is seen as a positive development in france at beginning b/c they think he will take a stance against communism. Seems like versailles treaty only holds b/c france really wants it to hold. This is not peace, it"s a 20-year armistice (ferdinand foch not important)
