Fascism questions:

Why were the Germans so eager to go to war in 1914?

-because of the naval arms race between Britain and Germany

-war plans of Germany, France, and Russia automatically escalated conflict (Schlieffen plan)

-Germany before the war ran on military timetables, when things went wrong

-rising militarism, provoked an attitude that desired war

-unification of Germany had occurred around 40 years before, they wanted to fight as a nation

-wanted to be an imperial power, wanted to try and take British colonies

-they had many alliances with countries, wanted to back their allies because they believed the same would be done for them

Was the war an aberration or the culmination of a long process in European history?

-culmination because of the large number of alliances that were made before WWI, they had an obligation to go to war if one country declared it, became an entire web of alliances that set the whole world into battle

-imperialism, all European countries were competing for limited colonies, tensions running high

What did WWI have to do with Fascism?

-by the end of WWI, Germany had lost everything and had to pay lots of reparations due to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I

-these conditions that the rest of Europe left Germany in set the stage for them to be heavily opposed to other countries and ethnicities because they saw them as impure and corrupt

-also set the exact conditions required for Paxton’s definition of Fascism to be fulfilled (sense of overwhelming crisis, belief one’s group is the victim, right of the “chose people” to domination without moral or legal restraint)

How does Paxton explain the origins of Fascist movements?

i hate you all. bitches

(we didn’t know the answer to this one because we couldn’t read and couldn’t find a single person who did, we apologize…if you read, then you are a nerd)