HIS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: War Reparations, Radical Action, Congenital Disorder

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: History - A&S
• Course: HIS 100
• Professor: Professor Rosenthal

Document Summary

Benito mussolini- italian prime minister whom supports fascism. Sacrifice and courage: muscular spirituality (strength and determination), anti-democratic, state control of society. Individual and individual rights are of little value: expansion, political transformation, women disregarded. How did hitler become the leader of a sophisticated nation given the circumstances of his acts committed during the holocaust. Germans considered themselves to be a nation of poets and thinkers. Inflation in germany caused people to have to spend a whole wheelbarrow of cash on one loaf of bread. In germany class matter especially when respect is desired. Middle class impacted by inflation, causing the middle class to fear proletarianism. Hitler acts as a messenger in the bavarian army, running between trenches to deliver messages: average lasts six weeks, but hitler lasts the entire war. Becomes head of german political party that he had to inspect as an army officer. Weimar republic: liberal constitution, universal suffrage, social welfare, women able to vote, modern liberals.