Fascism Podcast Draft

Fascism is the political idea that, the average person should support their country rather than pursue individual freedoms. Fascists are people that are nationalistic, militaristic, anti-communist, totalitarianism, and corporatism as some of the idea's of a Fascist. The word fascism derives from the Latin word fasces, which means " Bundle" or the Italian word, fascismo which means "Bundle" or "Union". They believe that corporations should be able to become monopolies, to make great economic progress in the country. They believe that freedom of speech and press should not be allowed, however, they usually try to make the people convert into one religion, one ethnic background, one cultural and racist background. Fascism really started to progress in the years prior to World War two.

This was when two famous Fascist Dictators came to power. One of the reasons why they came to power was because World War one had left them economically and socially in disarray. The Two Dictators were Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Hitler was dictator of Germany and Mussolini was dictator of Italy. They would also use threats and fear to control the population. These dictatorships used the fact that the League of Nations and the treaty of Versailles was depriving them of there true power. The people believed that they were the right people to do the job. Once Hitler and Mussolini were in power, they bascically started WW II because they were so militarily aggresive. In other words-they were bullies.
The extremely poor and middle class favored Fascism because it was supposed to aid the poor and middle class rather then the wealthy. Other people who support this idea were, nationalist, people not affected by World War one, Big Corporations, landowners ( because they got there own land) Small business owners and extreme conservatives. After world War two, the number of fascist have decreased tremendously.

The Opium Wars

The Opium wars was about how the British wanted to get tea for very low prices. This resulted in the English selling a drug called opium. The people got addicted and then the British sold the drugs to the people for lots of tea. The Chinese tried to complain about it but the English would not listen. As a result, a war brewed between the Chinese and British. The British, however, had technology that was far superior to the technology of thew Chinese. The Chinese were humiliated as a result because the British technology. The British ended up winning the war without much competition. Then China was forced to trade with other countries.

" The White Man's Burden"

The "white man's burden" is making the savages in Africa more civilized. The reason why is because they wanted to completely own Africa. He was really racist, so his ideas were blinded by his misconceptions of their race. I agree with the analysis because he was influenced by the Englishman's idea of a civilized colony. I think that America is still Imperialistic today because they are trying to take control of Iraq for peace. We are living "The White Man's Burden" because we are trying to make other people act, by forcing them to take on our own government and way of life.

"The Scramble for Africa"

Africa divided into many sections after the Europeans started to conquer all the land in the area. Africa was conquered by Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal. They were looking to expand there land and to obtain the resources that the Africans had. These materials were diamond, gold, silver, rubber, tin, copper, salt, wood, ivory, iron, and other valuables. They invented the machine gun and a cure for Malaria. This made it easier to conquer and move through Africa. Since they made weird borders, this gave allied tribes separation, and the enemy tribes closer together. This made disputes and wars against the other tribes, but the Europeans did not care about the Africans, but a way to get better resources for very little money.

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Europeans faced many hardships as they went to the middle of Africa. Tribes of the native African people would ambush and kill Europeans. Malaria would also kill the people. The journey was so long, that many people died of heat and exuation. The reason why the lake that is the center of the Nile river is named after a British queen is because an Englishman found it and then named it after the queen of England. The Europeans had guns, while the Africans had spears. The Europeans would eventually get machine guns and a cure for Malaria. This would allow easy penetration through the heart of Africa.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

The Meji era came after Commodore Matthew Perry came and started rough housing the Japanese. Matthew Perry came from the U.S.A and started making threats about bringing more ships. This is how Matthew Perry got a trading agreement with Japan. This caused the Japanese to realize that they had to modernize, or else they will be taken over. The Japanese economy changed for the better. The government realized that there was no money coming for everybody, so they decided to stop Feudalism and start having a economy that benefited everybody. Now, instead of the Nobles making all the money, the peasants and everybody else can make money. The Japanese made great changes in their technology as well. Japan made better schools, they made a better government, they increased in knowledge. This led to many ships, and weapons to be built easily. They made factories and this caused mass production. Japan is geologically called an archipelago. An Archipelago is a large group or chain of islands.

Karl Marx and Communism.

Karl Marx was a revolutionist because he thought that the capitalists were hogging all the money while the workers were the ones who should be owning the companies and factories. He wanted everybody to be equal in ower and finacial levels. Communism is the political view where the common people obtain the wealth from the rich, so that everybody has the same amount of money. The reason why Karl Marx wanted cummunism to expand so that it could take over the world because he wanted the working class to gain control of the government. Karl Marx saw the working middle to low class man as a the " Good Guy's". He saw the rich factory owning capitalists as the guy's who were abusing the lower class's. The reason why he saw it this way was because the rich factory owners controlled everything and had to do little work, while the middle class had to do all the work.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

A man named Karl Marx disapproved of the fact that the wealthy used the workers by making them do cheap labor for long hours and would them hurt them if they did not work. This inspired the word communism because of the fact that he thought that everybody should be at the same financial level as everybody else. the word communism means common, he wanted everybody to be the same and wanted everybody to act the same as each other.

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This was a time in which inventions furthered the ability of man. This made things run a lot faster. Anything, from machines, to obtaining resources by these machines to make more and new ones. City-states would be the result of the Industrial revolution. This was also good for those who wanted work because factories were made during this time, thus making work available. During these times, machines took over for the manual labor that was accustomed. these machines caused trade to be much easier. They could build canals, and railroads. Coal was a primary reason for most of the advances, Trains, electric power generator. The first one was would lead to a second Industrial revolution. The reason why it started it in England was because of the end of Feudalism. This caused the English civil war.

Cities were both good and bad. they were good because people could socialize. This allowed workers to get acquainted in stead of working by themselves. Since every one had to be in cities, it allowed learning to commence, thus the intelligence level increases. However, there was a down side to cities as well. Since a lot of people lived together, and it was dirty, this allowed diseases to spread fast and kill a lot of people in the towns. Also, Over population set up for a need for a lot of constant supplies.

They had child labor, which means children as old as five could be working in Textile mills or coal mines for almost nothing. The reason why factories did this was because they did cheap labor and they did almost the same work as adults. A lot of children would end up dieing in the mills or factories because of over-work or starvation. They would use the materials to mass produce products, causing Objects to be very cheap and inventions were at a prime here. They made steam powered boats, pots, pans, and they used iron and coal to make these inventions.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

The definition of nationalism is when you are dedicated and absolutely loyal to what you and your country want to do to better it. You also take pride in everything your country does for you. I am nationalistic because I am proud of what country represents and how it represents it. I solute the American flag, I have the language of English, and I have taken part in the American learning system. Before Italy became a country, it was a lot of small countries that bordered each other. Nationalism gave rise to Italy by Revolution, Two leaders got fed up with a ruler not born in Italy. The revolutions ended in disaster because they were unsuccessful. Camillo di Cavour, who owned a good amount of Italy, he decicded to expand and create the nation of Italy.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon was born on July 24, 1783 and lived in Caracas, Venezuela. He was a great military general who turns out to inspire the Latin American people to revolt. He inspired his people for democracy and the only way was to get rid of the Spaniards. These wars to free countries in South America was known as the Bolivar wars. After the War, that was a success, he went on to marry María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro. When she died a year later, he decided to never remarry. He ended serving as a president for Gran Columbia. He was going to go to England or France, when he finally died after a long battle with Tuberculosis.

After the French Revolution

The reign for terror was a time in which the Europeans, saw the French and feared that a similar result would happen. They were constantly spying on the French and observing your country. The country of France was trying to change for the better, but democracy came by after all this fighting. This fighting ended with a lot of people being killed by the guillotine. In order to execute soemone, they had to parade thwe person for about an hour and a half, around the city streets. They then put your head on a spot and cranked up the blade. When the blade got to the top, they let go, and the blade fell. They head was severed off of the body. There was a man named Maximilien Robespierre, who was a great leader and a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He ended up creating a law that said that there didn't need to be witness's to be sent to death. Before he died 1,285 people were executed by the guillotine. He believed in a Supreme being, who wasn't God, but a radical Democrat. He would be charged with Dictatorship, Tyranny, ands the conspiracy to against the Republic. He would executed on June 17, 1789.

French Revolution

The French Revolution lasted 10 years as the struggle between the poor and the rich. The rich was being taxed almost nothing and the poor was being taxed the most. The poor were even voted against because the Clergy and the Nobles always voted against the third estate. The third estate got so angry, that they revolted and ended up taking a prison called the Bastille. They then took the King Louis XV1 and held him in Paris. He would no longer be away from Paris because he used to live in Versailles. A couple of years later, he was killed by the gulliatine.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

The difference between the Heliocentric and the geocentric is what each one revolves around. The Heliocentric theory is that all the planets revolve around a giant ball of plasma called a sun. The sun keeps everything rotating to prevent it from going away. The geocentric belief was that all planets and the sun revolve around the earth. The Earth is the planet that keeps everything going. They thought this because thew sun moves around but it looks like the sun moves with the earth and changes, and the planets are always moving. The church thought that for years that everything revolved around the earth but Copernicus was the one to think differently and proposed the heliocentric theory.

The trial of Galileo was supposed to show that all the people had to agree with the Church. Galileo's book was to precise when it comes the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun rather then the accepted tradition of the Sun and the other planets revolving around the Earth. Galileo ended up saying that he apologized that he was lieing to the people about how the planets revolved around the sun, but instead revolved around the Earth. After the trial, he was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life, this was when he tried new experiments.

Scientific Revolution: Scientific Method

Around the 1500, a lot of scholars believed that the ancient Greeks and Romans had great technology. They followed the exact methods of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The other way that they got scientific research and ideas was from the bible. It was a common theory that the sun and the planets revolve around the earth. Since, there is scientific revolution, we know that these facts aren't true.

An Italian man named Galileo invented the scientific method by getting to different sized stones and dropped them from the leaning tower of Pisa and then he noticed that they dropped at the same speed, this disproved Aristotle's theory. This then became excepted as the idea to base research on. These scientist's didn't just leave theories, they tested these theories to see if they were right. There was even a man named Isac Newton, and he tested Gravity and his theories still remain amongst our theories today.

There are four parts to the scientific method and they are, The first is Observing, the second is creating a Hypothesis, the third is Make prediction, the fourth is Testing the predictions. Observations are really good when it comes to finding out something to test. Creating a Hypothesis is easy because it is seeing what you want to accomplish when you are testing. The prediction is the outcome that you think will happen. The last one requires time and the materials to preform the test and see weather or not the prediction was true or was it different.

Creation vs Evolution

Evolution is the idea that every single living being has been progressing to adapt to the environment and to become different over time. Men originally were primates but as time went on, we evolved to be more intelligent and the humans we are now. This creates mutations to all the organisms, which is called natural selection. The living in which all animals and creatures compete to survive is called the survival of the fittest. Charles Darwin was the main guy in the creation of the theory of evolution.

Creation is the theory that God created every single thing on Earth and created the universe. This says that god, or a deity created the Earth. This is based on the book called the Genesis. In the old times, this was widely excepted and if you didn't agree with this concept, you were deemed a satanist and most likely banned from the town. Most religious authorities and believers of that religion agree with this theory. The church was the founder of this theory.

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