Main facts of Italian fascism and German nazism

By cesar13

  • After the Great War a republic was set up in Germany

    It was a democratic government

  • Communists tried to take over Berlin in the Spartacist Revolt, but they were defeated

  • Mussolini controls and ends the general strike in Italy

    This made him very popular
  • Mussolini marched on Rome with his 30,000 Blackshirts in order to seize the power

    Mussolini marched on Rome with his 30,000 Blackshirts in order to seize the power

    King Victor Emmanuel III was terrified so Mussolini was asked to become Prime Minister
  • Germany suffer a hyperinflation

    Germany suffer a hyperinflation

    This happens when production can´t keep up with the amount of money there is, so money keeps losing its value. As result of this, prices could increase every day, middle classes lost their savings and the German market became worthless

  • There was a new chancellor in Germany: Stresemann

    Germany was starting to recover

  • The National Socialist German Worker ´s Party (Nazis), created by Adolf Hitler tried to take over Munich

    They were defeated and Hitler went to prison for nine months

  • The Italian fascists win the elections

    Mussolini had changed the election system. That helped the fascists. They started to grow their power in Italy

  • Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty in 1929 with the Pope Pius XI

    Italy acknowledged the independence of the Vatican as a sovereign state.

  • Stresemann´s dead

  • President Hindenburg called an election but did not get the majority

    The new government still could not govern properly

  • After the new elections Hindenburg offered Hitler the post of Chancellor

  • A fire broke out in the Reichstag building and Hitler blamed the communists

    A fire broke out in the Reichstag building and Hitler blamed the communists

    He used emergency decrees against terrorists, so communists were arrested and soon he declared the Communist party illegal

  • Hitler decided to call for another election hoping to make the Nazis stronger in the Reichstag (Parliament)

    He did it well and he gained more power

  • Hitler still had opposition and he ordered to arrest Röhm (leader of the SA: the military force to protect the Nazis) and others

    He killed all of them and ,when Hidenburg died, Hitler became Chancellor, President and Commander-in chief of the army

  • Hitler began some campaigns to re-take those German regions(Saarland 1935, Rhineland 1936)

  • Mussolini conquered and annexed Abyssinia, part of Ethiopia

  • He wanted Austria to be a part of his Reich

  • Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France reached the Munich Agreement, where Germany annexed the Sudetes

    Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France reached the Munich Agreement, where Germany annexed the Sudetes

    The Sudetes were the germans who lived in Czech area

  • A Jew murdered a German diplomat in Paris

  • Albania and Somalia were occupied by Italy

  • The Pact of Steel was signed between Hitler and Mussolini

    They allied against communism
  • Hitler commanded the invasion of Poland

    Hitler commanded the invasion of Poland

    This involved the outbreak of II World War

  • The Jews lived in ghettos