The end of the First World War left Italy vulnerable. Italian citizens were largely unhappy with the state of their war-torn country and dissatisfied with the results of the Versailles Peace Conference. Due to the monetary pressures inflicted by the war‚ many had trouble surviving in the post-war economy. Frustrated with their current political system‚ unsettled citizens turned to violent‚ revolutionary groups who were willing to use any amount of force necessary to create change. Soon‚ a charismatic
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Benito Mussolini was born on July 29‚ 1883 in Predappio. The son of a blacksmith he was largely self-educated. He became a schoolteacher and a socialist journalist in northern Italy. In 1910 he married Rachele Guidi who bore his five children. Mussolini was jailed in 1911 for his opposition to Italy’s war in Libya. Soon after his release in 1912 he became editor of the socialist newspaper in Milan‚ "Avanti!". When WWI began in 1914 Mussolini advocated
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Italy‚ relevantly newly unified still had a strong sense of division between the North and South regions‚ causing tension and issues within the government and its citizens. Another issues causing trouble within Italy was that its big wartime debt that it accumulated during the war. This wartime debt led to an economic depression; the North faced an industrial depression‚ where as the South face an agricultural depression. In addition to all these issues taking place Italy’s parliamentary government
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to 1922‚ where 5 weak governments were elected in quick succession. The “mutilated victory” of Versailles‚ where Italy was given meagre quantities of land‚ was a cataclysmic blow to the popularity of liberalism and allowed for more radical parties such as the Fascists to enter the political spectrum. Threats to the government’s power came from both the far right and left‚ with the Fascist party gaining 35 seats in 1921 and membership for the Partito Socialista Italiano rising from 50‚000 to 200‚000
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Benito Mussolini Biography 1922 – 1943 Benito Mussolini was a fascist Italian dictator. He was head of the Italian government for 21 years (1922 to 1943). Mussolini didn’t care much about the people and mistreated them he only cared about his opponents. He also led Italy into three wars. He was overthrown by the people of Italy in the third war. Benito Mussolini was the son of a blacksmith born in Dovia di Predppio (North West Italy) July 29th 1883. His mother‚ Rosa‚ was an elementary school teacher
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in the established order and who favor traditional attitudes and practices‚ and who sometimes advocate the forced establishment of an authoritarian political order (Grobman). Totalitarianism spread throughout the European continent and created Fascist Italy‚ Nazi Germany‚ and the Communist Soviet Union or U.S.S.R in Russia that would forever change government and policies. Totalitarianism is form of government in which all societal resources are monopolized by the state in an effort to penetrate
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give more importance to groups rather than individuals. For example‚ in Italy‚ Benito Mussolini believed that the power of a nation does not lie on every single individual but in the state as a whole. As the leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy‚ Mussolini was one of the founders of Fascism. In Mussolini “Doctrine of Fascism”‚ he writes many of his ideas that describe fascism and how the state should be under a fascist rule. In his document‚ Mussolini has many arguments that include why he
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How did Mussolini turn Italy into a totalitarian State? Benito Mussolini was born in 1883‚ and was Italy’s Fascist leader until his death in 1943. He was the son of a socialist blacksmith so he grew up with strong left-wing beliefs. Like his father‚ Benito too joined the Italian Socialist Party. After a brief period as a teacher‚ Mussolini began to concentrate on journalism and became the editor of “Avanti”‚ the paper of the Socialist Party. In 1912‚ with the outbreak of the war‚ Mussolini
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evident that communist Italy was a failure. Mussolini had led the Italian population to believe that he and his fascist party were their only hope into putting an end to the chaos in Rome‚ and re-establish order and bring about the once great Italy‚ just as Caesar had in the time of the great Romans. This was appealing to the Italian people‚ as the city or Rome seemed to have fallen into ruins‚ taking advantage of this‚ Mussolini had conveyed himself as their saviour. Fascist ideology stressed the
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have been created to emulate the conditions of life. The influential film movement‚ Italian Neorealism‚ began in the mid-to-late 1940s and was a style of filmmaking that aesthetically established everyday life of the lower class in post World War II Italy. The stories would follow themes
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