Fascism is the term used to describe the political machine of the Italian and later Nazi German regimes of World War II. Using the textbook, in-class material and the intertubes, provide answers laden with evidence for the following:

1. How did Benito Mussolini win election?
2. How did Adolf Hitler win election?
3. What was similar about Mussolini and Hitler's rule once they were in power?
4. What was different about Mussolini and Hitler's rule once in power?

BONUS: Think you have a sharpened historical mind? Answer this: if Italy and Germany better coped with the depths of the Great Depression, and the American New Deal was democratic, but less effective, what ultimately got America out of the depression?
Due Friday May 3rd
Evidence, Evidence, Evidence

As a final assignment to our week-long unit on Pre-Columbian Exchange Africa, I would like you all to do just a small amount of research. You and members of your corresponding row will be assigned to one of the 5 regions of Africa. Your task is to find a modern issue that people in that region are dealing with today. You do not have to become an expert nor do you have to do any sort of presentation for this research-based assignment, but you do have to learn and synthesize! What this means, as we have said in class numerous times in the past, is you are to research a fairly large topic, and then teach it to me in your own words...in other words, learn something! Take my example in class about the gold mining in the Congo Basin; an "issue" could be lots of things [social, political, interaction, cultural, economic, etc). We will define modern in this assignment to be anything from 1990 to today. onus point if you can figure out why I selected the year 1990 as the cutoff (periodization!). Keep your responses to no more than a paragraph and make sure that everything is your own work / words...ummmkay? And remember that your post must be read and approved by me before it appears, so don't, like, trip if you do not see it right away. Also, always good to copy / paste your reply from another source lest you fall victim to timing out.

Due Friday 19th at 11:59 PM