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FASCISM IN SPAIN, ITALY & GERMANY

Nationalism spread rapidly throughout
Europe and took hold in countries such as
Spain, Italy and Germany. In Spain, the fas-
cist dictator, Francisco Franco engulfed his
country into a bloody civil war after a failed
coup attempt in 1936. Adolf Hitler, who had
gained the Chancellorship of Germany in
1933, saw the Spanish conflict as a way of
testing his ‘Blitzkrieg’ weapons of war and
supported the Franco regime by supplying
aircraft, troops and weapons.

Adolf Hitler & Francisco Franco celebrate the end of the
Spanish Civil War, circa: 1939

In Italy, Benito Mussolini’s National Fascist
Party had been in power since 1922. He
saw democracy, socialism and liberalism as PERSONS WANTED
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Mussolini and his ‘Blackshirts’ march on Rome in 1922.