HON351
Spring semester 2008
Study Sheet
Fascism and Nazism as Ideologies
Reading Assignment:
Ball and Dagger, chapter 7
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Questions to consider while reading Ball and Dagger, chapter 7:
1. Fascism was a reaction to which elements of Enlightenment (liberal thinking)?
2. What basic beliefs are common to fascist ideologies?
3. What historical circumstances made it possible for Hitler to rise to power and establish a Nazi state?
4. How did fascism as practiced in Mussolini's Italy differ from nazism as practiced in Hitler's Germany?
5. Are there more contemporary examples of states with fascist tendencies?
6. In what contries have neo-fascist movements emerged? What circumstances have given rise to these movements?