Fascism - Hitler and Mussolini

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Fascism - Hitler and Mussolini

Lesson plan

Fascism, Hitler & Mussolini	15 min
Make a timeline	10 min
Break	4 min
Different & the same	10 min
Closing	10 min

What do you know?

Fascism

against:

• Democracy
  
• Liberalism
  
• Socialism
  
• Communism
  
• Capitalism
  
• Individualism
  

Important points for fascism

Nationalism

Your own country and/or people are the best -

better than others

Worship the leader

Use of violence is ok

Survival of the fittest

The state is more important than the individual

Men fight/work

Women stay home and take care of the children

War is necessary

Benito Mussolini

• The first fascist
  
• Italy
  
• Teacher, journalist, soldier 
  
•  'Make Italy great again'
•  Country needs 1 strong leader
•  Il Duce - the leader
•  Used all means necessary
•  Example for ..................................

Adolf Hitler

• Unsuccessful painter
  
• Soldier
  
• Unhappy with Germany after war
  
• Blames communists, new German government and especially the Jewish people
  
• Gets elected - then ends democracy
  

Fascists

• Fought for their country, to make Italy great again
• not so much against Jewish people

Nazi's

• Fascism + racism
• Fought for the German race
• People who were 'worth less' were put in concentration camps

Timeline - rise of Mussolini & Hitler

• Turn your page and draw a line in the middle

• Go to kids.brittannica.com and look up Mussolini and Hitler and/or use your text book

• Make a timeline with the important dates of their rise to power.                                                             READY? LET ME KNOW!
  

Take a little break

if you like...

The same and different

•  Use the same sources 

• What did Mussolini and Hitler have in common?

• What differences were there between Italy and Germany?                                                                    READY? LET ME KNOW!
  

What is fascism?

What is National Socialism?

What caused these systems to grow?

Can you name a difference between Mussolini and Hitler?