BELL WORKImagine that Principal Jones has created a huge list of rules and posted them in every classroom. Here are a few of his rules:

1. Everyone must do 50 push ups when they see the Principal.2. Everyone must always wear ALL yellow clothing.3. Everyone must eat only carrots for lunch every day.4. Everyone must shave their heads.

Some people are saying that Principal Jones is a dictator. Write a short journal entry either agreeing or disagreeing with this statement.

OBJECTIVEI can apply deep meaning to the term “dictator” by learning and reading about Mussolini.

SPI 7.4.1 Define the different types of governments (i.e., democracy, autocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, dictatorship).

REMINDER:

TOMORROW• Identify the 4 countries of Southern Europe on map• Know their capitol cities of Southern Europe• Know the names of the Southern European peninsulas• Study the facts and figures from your notes

mussoliniThe rise and fall

Early life

• Born in northern Italy in 1883• Raised in a Catholic household• His father was an active socialist• He worked as a journalist in the socialist press• He was drafted into the Italian army in 1915

MUSSOLINI THE

DICTATOR• A system of government

with centralized authority led by a dictator.

• Usually involves terror, censorship, nationalism, and racism

FASCISM• He created a new ideology called Fascism

• Fascism is a system where one leader has complete power over a nation, with a goal of making it completely independent of other nations.

• Fascism also states that the goals of the nation being more important than anything else, including citizens.

WORDS HAVE POWER"All within the state,

nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." 

- Benito Mussolini

Discuss the meaning of this quote with your pod

Reminders about close reading

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DICTATOR

rise to power• Mussolini set up a Fascist Party and promised to

solve Italy’s problems.• Promised to rebuild Italy and recreate the Roman

Empire.• Organized armed gangs called the “Blackshirts”.

March on rome

• Mussolini and the Fascist Party marched towards Rome to establish the Fascists Party as the most important party in Italy.

• "Our program is simple: we want to rule Italy.” -Benito Mussolini

DICTATORS UNITE

• In 1939 Mussalini and Hitler worked together during WW2

• Dictator + Dictator = YIKES!

Italy during WW2• Mussolini wanted to create a “New Roman Empire.” • Mussalini’s troops were unprepared.• Italy soon declared war on Britain and France• It was defeated by Greece by sea.• Italy was defeated on all fronts by American forces.

The fall of mussolini

• Mussolini knew that he had failed the Italian people by not bring back the “Roman Empire”.

• He ultimately asked his own men to shoot him…and they did.

ASSESSMENT1. Open your binder back to the Bell Work from earlier.

2. Write down 3 facts that define a dictator.

• What is the capitol of Italy?• What is the capitol of Spain?• What is the capitol of Portugal?• What is the capitol of Greece?• What religion are people in Italy?• What religion are people in Greece?• What peninsula is Greece located on?• What peninsula is Italy located on?• What peninsula is Spain located on?• What foods are popular in Greece?

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