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History Chapter 26
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04/21/2014

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League of Nations
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The refusal of the US to participate in this organization undermined its effectiveness and made it weaker.
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Fascism
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Mussolini (Italy) outlaws political parties. Propaganda used to gain support of the young. Family is the pillar of the state, women rewarded for having children. Mussolini is limited by the Catholic Church.
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The Lateran Accords of 1929
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Recognized Catholicism as the should religion of Italy
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Totalitarianism
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Active commitment of citizens, Mass propaganda techniques, high speed communication, led by the single leader and single party, highly nationalistic,racist-militaristic-imperialistic.
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Benito Mussolini
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Takes advantage of Italian frustration over WWI. Establishes facism in Italy. Organizes political party along military lines. First fascist state in Europe
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Weimar Republic
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No leaders, weak and confusing parliamentary government, 25 political parties, coalition governments unable to pass effective laws, Paul von Hindenburg
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Adolph Hitler
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Volunteers in German army in WWI, imprisoned for trying to overthrow Munich as part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, Becomes chancellor while von Hindenburg is still president, Nazi party becomes largest, the enabling act, the death of Hindenburg in 1934 leaves him with very little limits
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Mein Kampf
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(My struggle) Was autobiographical, setting forth Hitlers ideology of Aryan supremacy, and anti-semitism.
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The Enabling Act
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Grants Hitler emergency power to pass laws without legislative voice.
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Aryanism
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Hitler believed in Aryan racial supremacy and viewed Jews as the archenemies of Aryans.
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Nuremberg Laws
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Excluded German Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages and extramarital relations between jews and German citizens. These laws separated Jews from the Germans politically, socially, and legally.
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Kristallnacht
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Attacks on Jews reached their most violent phase during "The night of broken glass," with attacks on JEwish homes, businesses, and synagogues. People threw rocks through the windows of Jewish owned buildings
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Joseph Stalin
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General Party Secretary. Control communist party. party controls all media and education. First Five Year Plan. Dictatorship established in 1929. Controls media to create public opinion.
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Five-year plan
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(1928) Emphasis on industry, real wages declined, use of propaganda, heavy industry and armaments allow USSR to successfully defend itself against German Attack in WWII.
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Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War
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Civil war breaks out is Spain. One side for monarchy, one for communism. Germany and Italy give aid to Franco (supports nationalism). Spain is devastated by the war and Franco remains neutral during WWII.
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