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= **Mussolini's Dictatorship:** =
 * // [|Mussolini's road to dictatorship] // took much longer than Hitler's in 1933. He achieved some semblanca of power after the March on Rome in 1922, when he was appointed Prime Minister of Italy. His government contained a mixter of men with different political beliefs - similar to Hitler's position in January 1933 // . //
 * In 1935, Mussolini invaded // [|Abyssinia, now Ethiopia] // and incorporated it into his new Italian Empire.
 * // [|The Hare-Laval Pact] // was an attempt by Britain and France to appease Mussolini into not starting a full-scale invasion of Abyssina.The Pact caused outrage in France as it effectively gave two-thirds of Abyssinia to Mussolini who seem to have got his way by merely threating aggression.

=** Fascism: **=
 * A political movement between World War One and World War Two, characterized by authoritarion and totalitarian regimes based on extreme forms of nationalism and conservation. The main goals of a fascist government are to create and empire and develop the morally strong New Man from the Ordinary Man.

=** Rise of Power: **=
 * // [|Mussolini's rise to power] //began in World War One with the involvement of Italy on the Allies. There was a great dissent over whether or not such involvement was necessary or useful, and the Socialist Party opposed the addition of Italian Arms to the forces of the Allies. Benito Mussolini, a prominent Socialist journalist, originally agreed with his party in regards to the war, but several months after the start of the war he changed his opinion and left the Socialist Party. After leaving the Socialist Party he founded a fascist newspaper, Popola d'Italia, and several fascist groups, the Autonomous Fascists, the Constituent Fascists, the Revolutionary Fascists, and the Fighting Fascists. [[image:howardgeography/adolf-hitler.jpg width="254" height="300" align="right" caption="Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)"]]

=**How did Germany go down so quickly into becoming a dictorship?** =
 * Germany had a fair election. The votes took place in March. Although Hitler was convinced it would be the last. He didn't get the number of votes he wanted but yet he did get enough to get over 50% majority in Reichstag.


 * < **Communists** ||< **4.8 million votes** ||
 * < **Social Democrats** ||< **7.2 million votes** ||
 * < **Centre party** ||< **5.5 million votes** ||
 * < **Nationalists** ||< **3.1 million votes** ||
 * < **Other parties** ||< **1.4 million votes** ||
 * < **Nazis** ||< **17.3 million votes** ||