So whether you're a kid that's in school or if you're a lifelong learner, maybe you're even cray cray on the internet, we're glad that you're watching. So let's go do a little bit of the giddying up for the learning right about now. Alright guys, before we jump into the actual history and we take a look at the rise of Mussolini and the rise of Hitler, we want to make sure that you understand on a very basic level what fascism is. At its root, fascism is loyalty to the state and obedience to the ruler. And sometimes people equate fascism with communism. And certainly there are some similarities when we look at the two. Both of them kind of equate to totalitarianism where you have one man rule.