Fascism:Ideology & Rise to Power
The Italian word meaning "bundle" or "group" from which the term Fascism originates.
What is Fascio?
The two major primary export commodities whose price crash devastated Singapore and Malaya in the 1930s.
What are rubber and tin?
Global economic role through which Singapore experienced the Depression crash.
What is an entrepôt (or transshipment port)?
Famous name given to October 29, 1929, marking the Wall Street Stock Market crash.
What is Black Tuesday (or Black Thursday)?
Colonial policy used in Malaya as a safety valve to avoid paying relief costs
What is mass repatriation / deportation of foreign workers?
Mussolini's March 1919 program advocating radical policies like 18-year-old voting and Church land seizure.
What is the San Sepolcro Manifesto?
Specific entitlement that collapses when a tapper loses work and cannot buy rice.
What is trade-based entitlement (or wage-exchange entitlement)?
Severity level assigned to the Great Depression in Southeast Asia by revisionist scholars
What is mild, modest, or minimal?
Protectionist 1930 US tariff act raising duties on over 20,000 foreign imports.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
Informal survival activity taken up by unemployed urban workers despite police bans.
What is street hawking / food vending?
The October 1922 event where Blackshirt paramilitaries marched on Rome, resulting in Mussolini being named Prime Minister.
What is the March on Rome?
Resource missing in urban Singapore that stripped workers of food security.
What is land (or agricultural land)?
Leading economic historian cited by Huff for advocating the revisionist view.
Who is Ian Brown?
Protectionist trade bloc system adopted by the British Empire at Ottawa in 1932.
What is Imperial Preference?
Estimated number of Chinese and Indian workers deported from Malaya from 1930 to 1933.
What is over 400,000 (or nearly half a million)?
Hitler's failed November 1923 Munich coup attempt that led to his imprisonment and the writing of Mein Kampf.
What is the Beer Hall Putsch?
Metric that soared for unemployed workers despite falling imported rice prices.
What is the real cost / affordability of rice (wage-rice ratio)?
Two landless immigrant groups revisionist historians completely ignored in their model.
Who are Chinese and Indian immigrant workers?
Latin American nation whose economy crashed due to 80% export dependence on coffee.
What is Brazil?
1930 Singapore legislation passing strict quotas on incoming deck passengers.
What is the Immigration Restriction Ordinance?
The government position Adolf Hitler was legally appointed to in January 1933 by President Hindenburg.
What is Chancellor (or Reich Chancellor)?
Informal sector whose collapse hit female-headed households hardest in 1930s Singapore.
What is domestic service (or prostitution/informal service)?
Vicious cycle triggered when smallholders produced more rubber to offset price drops.
What is overproduction / pushing global prices down further?
Direct tax increased by British colonial officials in Nigeria, causing rural uprisings.
What is the Head Tax (or Poll Tax)?
Demography forcibly repatriated by the US during the 1930s regardless of citizenship.
Who are Mexicans / Mexican-Americans?