Virtual Lectures in American History: It Can't Happen Here: American Fears of Fascism in the 1930s

With the rise of fascism around the globe in the 1930s, many Americans feared a fascist dictatorship could also emerge in the United States, especially as the Great Depression lingered. The author Sinclair Lewis was concerned enough to write a novel about such a scenario, "It Can't Happen Here," in 1935. These concerns continued until the United States entered the Second World War in 1941. While the U.S. successfully avoided a fascist government in the 1930s, changes in society, politics, culture and technology may make a fascist takeover even more likely today.

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