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Rise of Totalitarianism
Franco's regime was the only fascist government to stay in power after World War II. Benito Mussolini's Fascist movement rose to power in the late 1920's as a reactionary force, responding to pervasive popular disillusionment with the ineffective government in place at the time. Perhaps the most infamous example of an interwar totalitarian regime can be seen in the NAZI party's control of Germany between 1933 and 1945. -
Mussolini takes over
L Mussolini started his time in power by buying support from both the working class and the industrial bosses. Changed Italy's constitution and brought about many changes in Italy. -
Beer Hall Putsch
On November 8–9, 1923, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an attempted coup d'état which came to be known as the Beer Hall Putsch. They attempted to create a new government based on race. They failed but integrated it into a heroic effort. -
Stalin gains power
He rised to power and did three main things. The five year plan, collectivisation, and the purges. Fought as leader of Russia in ww2. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
In the hope of creating a stable government, the elderly President Hindenburg agreed to the plan. So on 30 January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. -
Reichstag Fire
On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down due to arson. The government falsely portrayed the fire as part of a Communist effort to overthrow the state.the Reichstag Fire Decree permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, dissolve political organizations, and to suppress publications. -
Nuremberg Laws
At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. This derived them form most political rights. -
Sudetenland/Appeasement
At Munich, France and Britain agree to give Hitler the Sudetenland.
Chamberlain waves 'a piece of paper' with Hitler's statement that he does not want to go to war. German troops march into the Sudetenland, and are welcomed as heroes. -
Kristallnacht
the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops.Kristallnacht figures as an essential turning point in Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews, which culminated in the attempt to annihilate the European Jews.
