Important Concepts
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Ideologies
Features of Fascism
• Nationalism:
○ View of the nation state, its culture and history, as a unifying force
○ Desire to remove foreign influences
○ Own nation seen as superior to other nations
• Militarism: a policy of aggressive military preparedness
• Social Unity: Opposes class-based divisions in society and promotes collective national society
• Social Darwinism:
○ The belief that races have evolved as superior to other races
• Authoritarianism: principle of blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and
action
National Socialism (Nazism):
• totalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler
• a much extreme version of fascism
Patriotism: the feeling of love, devotion, and sense of attachment to one's country
Marxism: society with no class. For him, all Western states start with capitalism. They then evolve into socialism and
eventually communism => communism should be the ultimate goal.
Imperialism: a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Totalitarianism: Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its
citizens.
German phases
Kaiserreich: authoritarian Monarchy fromm 1871 - 1918
Weimar Republic: parlamentarian democratic German government from 1919 to 1933.
Drittes Reich: totalitarian Nazideutschland from 1933 - 1945
Parties
German National People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei DNVP): national-conservative party in
Germany during the Weimar Republic
National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei NSDAP):
successor of DNVP, far-right political party, created and supported Nazism
HISTORY Page 1
Communism vs. Socialism