Name: Date:

Fascism in Italy and GermanyDirections: Use your notes to help you answer the following questions about Fascism in COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. What economic problems was Italy having after the end of the First World War?

2. How did Benito Mussolini use Italy’s economic problems to make himself dictator of Italy?

3. Why do you think Mussolini’s promise to stop the spread of Communism was convincing to many people in the 1920s?

4. What did Mussolini do once he became dictator of Italy?

5. What is Fascism?

6. Explain how Fascism is similar to Totalitarianism.

7. Explain the differences between Fascism and Totalitarianism.

8. Why do you think Hitler was better turning Germany into a Fascist country than Italy?

9. Why do you think Mussolini and Hitler always dressed in Military uniforms?

10. How do you think Fascism in Germany and Italy are going to lead to the Second World War?

11. Do you think the United States or other European countries should have done something to stop the rise of Fascism? Why or why not?

Fascist Propaganda – Triumph of the Will (1936)

1. Explain how the Nazi rally in the film Triumph of the Will shows Nationalism.

2. Explain how the Nazi rally in the film Triumph of the Will shows Militarism.

3. Why do you think the film features children?

4. Do you think Hitler’s speech was convincing to everyone at the rally? Why or why not?

5. Do you think everyone in Germany believed in Fascism? Why or why not?