Mussolini+vs.+Hitler

Carla Nicholson Mussolini and Hitler compare and contrast

Mussolini -Fascism in Italy -March on Rome (coup d'etat) -blackshirts (terrorised incipient resistances in the cities and provinces) -totalitarianism (Il Duce) -Acerbo Law (granted a two-thirds majority of the seats in Parliament to the party or group of parties which had obtained at least 25% of the votes) -squadristi (bands of armed Fascists) (VIOLENCE) -Lateran Accords (Catholicism as official religion of Italy) -Dopolavoro (control leisure activities of Italians) -not so much a supporter of racism, but did seek to "Italianize" -killed and hanged by feet in public place

Hitler -Nazism in Germany -soldier in WWII -Mein Kampf (anti-Semitism, anti-communism, Pan-Germanism) -lebensraum ("living space" for Germans) -Beer Hall Putsch (coup) -appointed as chancellor -occupation of Rhineland...Sudetenland -invasion of Poland.....World War II -Holocaust (discrimnation, mass killing) -"Strength through Joy" (control leisure activities of Germans) -suicide