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The Pact of Steel was signed between Hitler and Mussolini.
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INTERNATIONAL POLICY:
-Mussolini conquered and annexed Abyssinia.
-The Rome-Berlin Axis -
-The Depression hit Germany deeply.
-President Hindenburg called an election but did not get the majority.
-After the new elections Hindenburg offered Hitler the post of Chancellor . -
FASCIST ECONOMY:
-Mussolini promoted a capitalist economic model.
-Imports were limited.
-Fascist trade unions were created to represent the workers. -
FASCIST SOCIETY:
-Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty.
-Italy acknowledged the independence of the Vatican as a sovereign state.
-Catholicism was the Italian official religion.
-Mussolini became more racist with Jews.
-Everything was completely controlled by Mussolini and the Fascist National Party. -
-Died Stresemann.
- The disaster of the Wall Street Crash.
-The Nazis became popular among several groups. -
-Germany joined the League of Nations.
-Stresemann won the Nobel Price for his efforts. -
-Germany suffered a hyperinflation.
-There was a new chancellor, called Stresemann.
-The National Socialist German Worker ́s Party, they were defeated and Hitler went to prison for nine months. -
- Mussolini marched on Rome with his 30,000 Blackshirts in order to seize the power.
-Mussolini was asked to become Prime Minister.
-He began to change Italy into a dictatorship where people had to do as they were told. - The king had no real power any more.
- Mussolini marched on Rome with his 30,000 Blackshirts in order to seize the power.
-Mussolini was asked to become Prime Minister.
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-Suffered the enormous human and economic.
-There was a major political crisis since they did not get as
much as they expected.
-Besides there was a social and economic crisis.
-Particularly middle and upper classes, were afraid of a communist revolution.
-The fascists led by Benito Mussolini began to control m
any parts of Italy. -
Weimar Republic:
- The society was divided.
-They did not accept losing the war and they thought that the conditions of the Peace Treaties.
- Communists tried to take over Berlin in the Spartacist Revolt, but they were defeated. -
Communists tried to take over Berlin in the Spartacist Revolt, but they were defeated.
