st movement was in full effect, and factory workers and peasant were taking over factories. And with the pope lifting the ban on Catholics, there were an increasing number of different opposing factions in government making an already unstable government worse. Mussolini, a nationalist and fascist, steps in asking for a greater sense of nationalism. He helps this idea with promises of better benefits for the working class and land reform for the peasants. This gained him support from the lower and middle classes and directly attacked the socialist party. He used a growing number of followers to literally beat the socialists into submission and thwart an already unstable government. As the final straw, a group of fascist supporters stormed Rome and demanded that the King ask Mussolini to take power. The King gave in to their demands and granted Mussolini legal power, thus granting totalitarianism a hold on all of Italy. Finally, the greatest emergence of totalitarian government happened in the beaten and torn country of Germany. After the First World War, Germany lay in ruins. Their defeat at the hands of the allied powers had left Germany without the right to bear arms, a stable economy, and the land that they had taken from many nations.The economic crisis of the Great Depression is the event that ultimately let Hitler and totalitarianism take over Germany. Hitler won the support of women and the youth. He preached to the lower and middle classes offering better wages and social reform. Hitler was smart, he did not openly attack democracy and bring the direct scrutiny of its democratic oppressors, and he played the nationalism card, and used the Treaty of Versailles as the oppressor. This alone could not have brought the small Nazi party to power. However, with the communists worried about the social democrats, Hitler amassed a majority of the voting population and won the election. Hitler motivated the whole country into becoming a do...
