mussolini: the founder of Fascism
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Great Depression: The Main Ingredient
- Unemployment high
- Many angry workers
- Hitler like Roosevelt provided jobs and
Brownshirts (s.a)
- Hitlers henchmen
- Used through the late 20's and 30's to harass opposition parties unmercifully
- Led by Ernst Rohm
- After Hitler is elected many are appointed auxiliary police
burning of the Reichstag
- February 1933
- Dutch communist "convicted of the crime"
- Hitler bullies (with the help of the Brownshirts ) the Reichstag into passing the enabling act to face the coming "communist revolution"
enabling act
- Agreed to by the Reichstag in 1933 under threats from the brownshirts (S.A)
- Only 93 social Democrats voted against it
- Allowed Hitler to pass laws wihtout consulting the Reichstag
- Despite the lack of freedom of speech or press Hitler ony won 288 seats, barely the majority
night of long knives
- 30th of June 1934 those killed were any would be internal challengers were murdered
- Ernst Rohm leader of (S.A)
- All socialist whom he'd only adopted for electoral reasons
- He declared the Shutszstaffel (S.S) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by Hindenburg
- A month later, Hindenburg dies in an "election" was held which voted Hitler in as President