Notes for pgs. 886-895 March 17, 2010

Pgs. 886-895

Fascism– used to describe a number of right-wing dictatorships that arose across Europe between the wars. They are antidemocratic, anti-Marxist, anti-parliamentary, and frequently anti-Semitic. They wanted to unite the various groups and classes within the nation to achieve great national purpose. They were usually single-party dictatorships characterized by terror.

The Fascist Experiment in Italy

• Italian “Bands of Combat” was founded in 1919.
• The leader of the party was Mussolini. He was strongly nationalist instead of socialist.
• During the war, the parliament had stopped functioning. There was also a lot of social turmoil.
• Mussolini and his fascist supporters started attacking socialists and terrorizing the land. They controlled the local government in much of northern Italy by 1922.
• In 1922, Fascists marched on Rome (Black Shirt March).
• Mussolini became Prime Minister. He was granted dictatorial authority for one year to bring order to local regional government by the king and Parliament.
• In 1924 Parliament changed the election laws. The fascists won a huge victory and complete control over the Chamber of Deputies.
• Laws passed in 1925 and 1926 allowed Mussolini to rule by decree—Italy was changed to a single-party dictatorial state.
• Mussolini made the Lateran Accord of February 1929—made peace between the Catholic Church and Italy.
• Fascist party encouraged women to stay home and have lots of babies. Abortion and contraception was banned. However, women still made up 25% of the workforce.

Joyless Victors

France

• After WW1, there was elected a very conservative Chamber of Deputies in France.
• There was a lot of political turmoil- between 1918 and 1933, 27 different cabinets took office in France.
• France was supposed to keep Germany weak.
• Little Entente- France + Czechoslovakia + Romania + Yugoslavia
• Russia and Germany signed the treaty of Rapallo- established diplomatic and economic relations useful to both of them.
• In 1923, France is mad at Germany for not paying war reparations. So they sent troops to occupy the Ruhr (Germany’s manufacturing district in the Rhineland).
• While France prevailed and Germany paid, it cost France a lot. By doing this they alienated Britain and increased inflation in France and Germany.

Britain

• WW1 changed British political system
• 1918- Parliament expands to allow men 21+ and women 30+
• British economy was depressed throughout the 1920s. 

HEY LOOK OVER HERE, I HAVE A QUESTION!!!!!!! January 12, 2010

I dont really understand the difference between the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe and all that. Are they the same meeting or dif meetings that were close together and established a lot of the same things? I never really understood these two things. So if you could clear that up for me, thatd be great!!! LOOOKKKKKKK OVER HERE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Thoughts October 13, 2009

So my thoughts with this is that it’s a way that we can help each other out. If we know that the other person is having a crazy week and we have some extra time, maybe we can do some of their notecards. Or if Mr. Phillips gives one person a notecard, they can put that on here even if that’s not one of theirs for the week. Hopefully this will make the class a lot better and give us more time to study and take notes…oh and have a life too.

Hello October 12, 2009

Welcome to our “we are so lazy” blog!