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| Benito Mussolini |
After WWI many people thought that
the old governments (Socialism, Communism, and democracy) were the cause of the
war so they did everything to reject the ideals of old governments and
supported anything that wasn’t even if they didn’t truly believe it was a good
idea. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) believed that democracy substituted the
rule of the incompetent many for that of the corrupt. Two of the most
influential people of this time were dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf
Hitler.
Benito Mussolini was the leader of
Italian Fascism. Italian Fascism was not a consistent doctrine but a fusion of
ideas. It was successful in Italy because at the time Italian society was neat
collapse. Fascism’s aim was to end class conflict. Fascism was a large
anti-liberal, anti-communist movement that was willing to apply force whenever
necessary and held all high-class values in contempt.
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| Adolf Hitler- the leader of Nazism |
Adolf Hitler borrowed Fascism from
Mussolini but took it one step forward- turning it into Nazism. Nazism was fascism
but with an added racist twist. This movement was very successful in Germany
because it gave people someone to blame for their issues: capitalism, communism, the Jews, the pacifists
and liberals, the weak and the insane- except they rolled it all into one thing
and called it ‘the Jewish conspiracy’. Nazism said that by purging anyone who was
part of the ‘Jewish conspiracy’ that Germany could take its place back in the
sun.
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