Totalitarianism

fascism

political movement from Italy, rejecting democratic solutions, planning to build a new society and the monopoly power of the facist party

Nazism

National socialism- German extreme form of fascism, which added racism and anti- Semitism to its ideology

communism

the ideology of classless society based on the program of equality and social justice, social control of the economy, ownership of means of production and fair distibution of wealth

1919

Benito Mussolini founded Fascia di Combattimento

1921

National Fascist Party founded

October 1922

The March on Rome

1929

signed of Lateran Pacts

1920

Formation of National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP, Nazi Party)

8 November 1923

Munich Putsch (coup)

29/30 June 1934

the Night of the Long Knives (SA leaders murdered)

August 1934

Hitler became Führer (office of chancellor and president merged)

Gestapo

secret police in the Third Reich

Victor Emmanuel III

King of Italy

1923

Acerbo Law - Mussolini created the dictatorship by changing the electoral laws

propaganda

influencing people's beliefs and behaviors by the use of intellectual and emotional pressure

Paul von Hindenburg

president of Germany

1935

release of Nuremberg Laws

1935

"the night of Broken Glass"

December 1922

USSR was created

1921

10th Congress of the party adopted a program called New Economic Policy

1924

death of Lenin

Leon Trotsky

political rival of Joseph Stalin

1937

Great Purge - campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union

Hemann Goering

Marshal of the third reich

Joseph Goebbels

head of propaganda

Heinrich Himmler

The head of SS