What was fascism (how does it differ from a democracy) and where did it originate?

· What
was fascism (how does it differ from a democracy) and where did it originate?
· What
kinds of conditions (economic and/or political) tended to make fascism appear
more appealing to folks in the 1920s and
1930s?
· Did
it work (i.e. did fascism restore moribund economies?)
· What
made fascism so dangerous (i.e. why were fascist nations the most likely to wage war at the time?)
Now, using some of the sources listed below, what
issues from the 1920s and 1930s are likewise present today? Have fascists in Brazil, the Philippines, and
Turkey changed at all from their predecessors in terms of their goals and their
“style?”
· Chapter
24 at www.americanyawp.com
· What
is fascism? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUcYU95kCAI
· Everything
you ever wanted to know about fascism at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
· How
fascists took control of Italy at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/how-italian-fascists-succeeded-in-taking-over-italy.html
· Italy,
Mussolini, and the alliance with Hitler https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/euro-hist/mussolini-fascism/v/fascism-and-mussolini
· Modern
Brazilian fascism—the Bolsonaros case. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/05/bolsonaros-model-its-goebbels-fascism-nazism-brazil-latin-america-populism-argentina-venezuela/
· Modern
Philippino fascism—the Duterte case. https://www.tni.org/en/article/rodrigo-duterte-a-fascist-original

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