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Understanding Fascism: A Quiz on Its Ideology and History

This quiz tests your knowledge on fascism, its ideologies, historical context, and key figures associated with the movement.

#Fascism #Political Ideologies #History #Benito Mussolini #Nazism #Economic Policy

1 Fascists support a "Third Way" in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant ________ of laissez-faire capitalism and the severe control of state socialism.

2 [94] He believed that the best ideology to exemplify Nietzsche's übermensch and living dangerously was aggressive ________.

3 The Iron Guard was a fascist movement and political party in ________ from 1927 to 1941.

4 Fascism was born during a period of social and political unrest following ________.

5 Benito Mussolini had a strong attachment to the works of ________.

6 Fascist leaders who ruled countries were not always heads of state, but heads of government, such as Benito Mussolini, who held power under the King of Italy, ________.

7 The Catholic Church was particularly suppressed by Nazis in ________.

8 [161] Critics have claimed that the Nazis' claim of scientific reasons for their promotion of racism, and hostility to homosexuals is ________,[162][163].

9 [187] After the Great Depression began, many people from across the political spectrum blamed laissez-faire capitalism for the Great Depression, and fascists promoted their ideology as a "third way" between capitalism and ________.

10 They were carried by his lictors and could be used for corporal and ________ at his command.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Romanian organization Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar was created by the Iron Guard in order to rally the working class around fascism.
  • the European fascist alliance New European Order split in 1955 due to a dispute over the issue of whether South Tyrol should be Italian or Austrian.
  • the Landespartei, which represented the most radical wing of the Alsatian autonomist movement, moved closer to fascist positions during the 1930s.
  • the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism".
  • when Romanian diplomat Mihail Fărcăşanu published in the newspaper a translation of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the communist press called Fărcăşanu a fascist.
  • the parents of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of the revolutionary anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured).
  • soon after the annexation of Albania in 1939 Italian fascists set up the Albanian Lictor Youth, a branch of the Italian fascist youth movement.
  • in the 1930s, Australia was home to a paramilitary Fascist organization called the New Guard.
  • José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy.
  • Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimatwehr, a fascist organization in Switzerland, because he advocated an annexation by Italy.
  • The Mass Psychology of Fascism, a book written by Wilhelm Reich in 1933, blamed sexual repression for the rise of fascism.
  • French politician Jean Fontenoy, initially a communist, later became a fascist.
  • during the Great Depression, the New Order of Cincinnatus, accused by its opponents of fascist tendencies, successfully placed three candidates on the Seattle City Council.
  • after the foundation of the German Democratic Republic, Nazi General Arno von Lenski was formally acknowledged as a "Victim of Fascism" in 1949.
  • WWI vet and Tour de France winner Ottavio Bottecchia was killed by either fascists or an angry farmer.
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