January 30th‚ 1933‚ and‚ after Paul Von Hindenburgs death‚ assumed the twin titles fuhrer and chancellor. (August 2‚ 1934). Mussolini gained support from the king of italy and many landowners/ factory owners and upper class people by using his blackshirt militias to put an end to socialists strikes. This‚ combined with other factors‚ resulted in the kind appointing Mussolini as prime minister. it was after this that his supporters marched on rome as a victorious show of force. over time‚ he gradually
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the Corfu incident in 1923. This was where some Italian soldiers employed by the Conference of Ambassadors to mark out the borders between Albania and Greece were murdered by Greek bandits. The Italian leader‚ Mussolini‚ demanded 50 million in compensation because of this. Because Mussolini demanded 50 million worth of compensation‚ Greece asked the League for help and to investigate. After it was brought to attention‚ Italy refused to adopt this and invaded Corfu. After this‚ the Conference of Ambassadors
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The League of Nations was an organisation designed to maintain peace throughout the World. It was created during the Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was the idea of Woodrow Wilson‚ the president of the USA. The League’s main aims were to bring together all nations in a parliament to discuss and settle disputes‚ to protect the independence of countries and safeguard their borders‚ to improve peoples living and working conditions‚ and to make war obsolete by persuading nations to disarm
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in a number of countries. The capitalist monopolists rose equal to the occasion and established their dictatorships and horror of a socialist revolution was thus set at rest for some time. Thus the dictatorships were established in Italy under Mussolini‚ in Germany under Hitler‚ in Turkey under Mustafa Kamal Pasha‚ under King Alexander in Yugoslavia and under General Tojo in Japan. Dictatorship is distinct from monarchy. Monarchy and dictatorship each are one man’s autocratic rule. But a monarchy
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Lloyd Grieve 08.03.10 11B History Mussolini and his ‘Battle for Land’ What were Mussolini’s aims with his ‘Battle for Land’? • This was to help the Battle of Grain‚ and make more space for the production of cereal • To help unemployment and creating demand. • Improving people’s health and this was improving the living standard to. • To show off himself to foreigners showing that he is a great and thoughtful leader. • He also wanted Italy more rural again
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Owen Jones May 13th‚ 2014 Mr. Heffernan Y2 History The Italian Campaign In January 19431‚ Allied leaders gathered at the Casablanca Conference. After long meetings‚ they determined that after they had gained all of North Africa‚ the next step would be to rid the Axis forces from the Mediterranean. The largest target was Italy. The Allied leadership named this operation the Italian Campaign. The goal was to get Italy out of the war and to draw German troops away from the Allied advance through
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civilians were killed for their political or religious views by both sides‚ and after the war ended in 1939‚ Republicans were at times persecuted by the victorious Nationalists. Since Spanish government was in disarray during its civil war so Hitler and Mussolini saw this as an opportunity to help and get the Fascist and Nazi ideals into the Spanish government. However‚ Franco himself was not a Fascist he was just accepting the help him and his government required. This resulted in strengthening the war because
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Fascism & Nazism * Brutality‚ suffering made clear chemical warfare * Loss of faith look for fascism & Nazism * Turn to science to make life better * Malthus – “perfectibility of man” scarcity of resources * Smith – Leave human nature Why does WWI cast reason in doubt? * Corruption: Why are we fighting? * 10 million dead‚ 21 million hurt leads to loss of demand (consumers) * War is expensive‚ international debt in Europe * Infrastructure‚ factories destroyed
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Dictatorship as a form of government is not new. It was a recognised institution in the republican Rome where normally the authority of government was vested in two presidents called Consuls. In times of emergency the Romans used to appoint a Director to supersede the Consuls‚ granting him supreme powers to meet the crisis. But Roman dictatorship was a temporary expedient to meet a crisis and was discarded when the crisis was past. Moreover‚ the dictator was selected by a legal process with
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On the Home Front World War 2’s main causes were the militarism of nations and the imperialism of Axis powers such as Germany. The war was also caused by nationalism‚ people in poverty rallied around strong socialist leaders such as Mussolini and Hitler. Lastly‚ the totalitarian dictatorships of Italy‚ Germany and Russia helped create the past three causes (All 4 of these causes create the acronym MINT). Without strong Allied leaders such as Churchill and Roosevelt‚ the Axis Powers could have very
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