Fascism

Common features in fascism

• Propaganda • Totalitarian state • Fear of communism• Single party government with one leader• Control of the media (propaganda)• Police and army used to maintain controll

Causes for the rise of fascism

• Economic depression • Unstable governemt• Fear of communism • Strong leaders rising to the fore • The effects of WW1 and the

disappointment in the treaty of Versailles

What did they favour • Extreme nationalism: nation all important

individual subject to the nation, nation must expand and conquer

• Cult of the leader: leader must be obeyed: names given to the leader

• Use of violence was acceptable to achieve power

• Racialism: the race line must be kept pure • Use of symbols • Rewritten historical events