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Title: Mussolini


1
Mussolini Italian Fascism
  • Fascist Fallout from WWI

2
Young Mussolini
  • Strong Italian nationalist, wanted Italy in WWI.
  • Fought in WWI, outraged at Versailles treaty
    (Italians snubbed).
  • 1919Organizes his first paramilitary
    organization.

3
Postwar Italy
  • Economic depression in cities, high unemployment.
  • Socialists urge strikes, land reform.
  • Peasants attacked landlords, trying to take land.
  • Parliamentary governments are ineffective to fix
    problems.
  • Fascist Black Shirts and Socialists fight in
    cities countryside.

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Fascists Take Power
  • Mussolini promises restoration of land and order.
  • Black Shirts break up strikes and attack union
    halls.
  • Wishes to recreate Roman Empire Italian
    grandeur.
  • Black Shirts march on Rome (like Red Shirts),
    Mussolini appointed premier emergency powers
    for a year (1922).

6
Mussolini Consolidates Power
  • Reduced parliamentary power.
  • Dissolved labor unions.
  • Abolished political parties.
  • Denounced democracy as a sham.
  • Proclaims himself as Duce (leader).
  • Creates Fascist organizations (women, opera,
    bowlingetc.)
  • 22 Corporations organized by occupation
  • Declares third path (neither capitalism nor
    Marxism).

7
Put a lid on it!
  • No real advances or reforms made in economy or
    countryside.
  • Mussolini gets great press for making the trains
    run on time.
  • Concordat signed with Vatican gains support from
    peasants, papacy.
  • Monarchy remained in place.
  • Made Italy feel self-confident again.

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