HIST 11051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Italian Fascism, Totalitarianism, Appeasement
28 Apr 2019
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Against individualism, liberalism, feminism, parliamentary democracy, and looked to charismatic leadership communism. Conservative/reactionary: celebrated traditional values fascism appealed to dissatisfied people in all social classes: achieved major power in italy and germany, the spread of fascism, 1935 ethiopia. Western allies, league of nations did nothing to halt war: spanish civil war. 1931 radicals oust spanish king, declare spain a republic. Military, church, elite hate republic: francisco franco assumes leadership, creates fascist organization. Civil war 1936 1939 saw world involvement: uk, france refused to become involved, ussr sent aid, volunteers to republicans. Italy, germany sent aid, volunteers to falangists (nationalists) Strong fascist movements in france, belgium, eastern europe. The depression led to nazism, the german variant of fascism. Adolf hitler called for the state to guide society: the state was greater than the sum of individual interests, promised to end the humiliation of versailles, railed against jews, nazis in power.
