How Did Benito Mussolini Come To Power

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Q8. When Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini came to power, they brought about new ideas and beliefs that the people agreed with and supported. For example, they both had brought about the ideas of Fascism into their countries, in which they would both take over as exceedingly powerful dictators. They both brought about not only ideas and beliefs, but they brought emotion, passion, and fire to the people as well. During this time, the people scattered all throughout the European countries were looking for a change after all of their economy’s had gone on a never ending downward spiral after the Stock Market crash on Wall Street in the United States of America. However, instead of just affecting America, it had affected the entire world as well. …show more content…
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler had both used fear in order to get what they wanted out of people, they were not afraid to eliminate whoever stood in their way. Fear was at work in both Italy and Germany, the people had become scared, they feared what would happen if they did not listen and follow the direction of their leaders. Secondly, both Hitler and Mussolini had stirred extreme nationalism and pride within their followers. Previously, I mentioned that both Hitler and Mussolini had taken over with the political idea of fascism, in order to be a fascist, you had to have extreme nationalism. Hitler and Mussolini had their followers have extreme pride and nationalism to their country along with their leader. It was important that the citizens were loyal to their country and leader, loyalty was very important. Third, moreso Hitler had implied and taught the idea of the scapegoat. Hitler had always made sure that he had a scapegoat, someone to blame when something goes wrong.Hitler would teach his followers that their scapegoat would be the Jews, Hitler believed that all Jews should be eliminated and held accountable for everything. This would create a sense of aner and hatred towards the Jews. Hitler and Mussolini had stirred the emotions of anger and hatred in their followers, not just hatred for the Jews, but hatred for almost anything that wronged

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