Mussolini vs. Hitler The rise of fascism in Italy was fueled by the bitter disappointed of the people over the failure to win large territorial gains at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. To more and more Italians‚ their current government‚ which was democratic at the time‚ seemed to be doing little to nothing to help the country’s problems‚ which included rising inflation and unemployment. In Germany‚ America stopped loans in 1924 and the German economy collapsed. Not knowing what to do‚ Germans
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the 29th of October. After ruling constitutionally‚ Mussolini decides - in 1925 – to seize dictatorial power and become “Il Duce” or “The Leader”. Maintain: Impressed upper and middle classes: Merged Nationalist Party with PNF [1923] to give fascism more respectability [Alfredo Rocco and Luigi Federzoni had influential connections to landowners‚ industrialists‚ armed forces‚ civil service and royal court. De Stefani‚ Mussolini’s finance minister‚ pursued orthodox financial polices to help upturn
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Cited: Albrecht-Carrié‚ René. Italy from Napoleon to Mussolini. New York: Columbia University Press‚ 1950. Web. 2 Nov. 2010. Bosworth‚ R.J.B. "Coming to Terms with Fascism in Italy: Mussolini Casts a Long Shadow. R J.B. Bosworth Describes How Italians of Both the Left and the Right Have Used Memories of His Long Dictatorship to Underpin Their Own Versions of History and Politics." History Today Nov. 2005: 18+. Web.
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Word Count: 2‚320 Mussolini’s rise to power changed the course of western history as it brought about the new political idea of fascism‚ which would later spread‚ to Germany‚ Spain and Portugal. Mussolini’s rise to power is one that is widely debated in history. The strongest claim as to how Mussolini rose to power comes from the idea that the Italian liberal state was to open minded to supporting him and that the workings of its system were flawed allowing him to exploit this for his own gain.
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Italians had during the time of Nazi occupation. Rossellini uses the illustration of two diverse wartime women and their drawn-out relationships to depict these two polar Italian political sentiments during WWII. Marina Mari‚ who is associated with Fascism throughout the film‚ is the first of the two women to make an appearance‚ in which she sits comfortably in her bed. On the other hand‚ Pina‚ representative of resistance‚ first appears on screen laboriously looting a bakery. Already‚ Pina is showing
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The Rise of Hitler and German Fascism I. The Weakness of Weimar Democracy * Why did Weimar Implode? * The legacy of WW1 tainted the new government with military defeat * The “stab in the back” legend – betrayed by left * Economic Turbulence * Hyperinflation to pay reparations * It lacks a strong popular mandate * The Extreme Left and Right both oppose Weimar – battling each other in armed street battles and attempting
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was mainly due to the use of force and intimidation? Mussolini consolidation of fascist power in Italy in the years 1922-1929 could have been mainly due to the use of force and intimidation. However this was not a straightforward process‚ since fascism was a new thing. In the years 1922 to January 1925 marked the transition from the liberal parliamentary system to the fascist state. Like many political transitions‚ it was an untidy and complicated process. Although from the start Mussolini’s intentions
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Il Duce: The Dictator‚ the Soldier‚ the Fascist Peter Benchley once said “Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.” Soon after The Great War had ended‚ there were unmistakable signs that all was not well. Italy was left in turmoil and had made a poor showing in the war that they later paid a heavy price for. More money was spent during the war than ever before. As a result‚ the economy fell‚ and the country was plagued with unemployment‚ inflation‚ riots‚ and strikes. It was then
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Hadn’t Dario Fo generated his play The Accidental Death of an Anarchist in a comical manner‚ the Italian fascist government of 1970 would have censored it. Dario Fo surely knew that if his play was more direct and aggressive‚ the play would have been censored and he would have paid the consequences. The Accidental Death of an Anarchist surely served as political tool‚ not only because it denounced the so called “strategy of tension” used by the fascist government. Dario Fo has succeeded in his objective
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How totalitarian were Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany? Giovanni Amendola first coined the word ‘totalitarian’ when describing the Italian Fascist government under Benito Mussolini in 1923 as different to conventional dictatorships. It is after this that the word was popularised to have both negative and positive connotations. However‚ German theorist Carl Friedrich and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski collaborated to formulate a modern day politically scientific definition known as the
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