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A 14 page paper that explores the beginning of fascist power in Italy, with a strong focus on Benito Mussolini and his reign. The paper looks at the political environment leading to Mussolini's reign and his response to it. The paper explores the political and cultural view of the populace and other political parties, and the changes in Mussolini's viewpoint/action, and how his actions led to the fall of fascism in Italy and contributed to the fall of Nazism in Germany. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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the rights to northern and southern Italy, served to keep the citizens of Italy in poverty. After the country was unified in 1870, the citizens expected to recover under
their new ruler Victor Emmanuel II, but thirty years later, the people realized that the monarchy was only interested in serving its own self-interests. During World War I
(1914-1918), Italy fought with Great Britain and France against Austria-Hungary and Germany. During the war, Italians became even poorer, so at the end of the war when a new
leader promised to bring back the glory of the Roman Empire, many people supported him. He was known as il Duce ("the leader") ("World History Since 1550").
His name was Benito Mussolini and his ideal was fascism-a beneficent dictatorship. He came to power in 1922 and signed a treaty with the German dictator, Adolf Hitler in
1936 to enter into yet another expansionist war ("1936-1996"). Pre-Fascism Italy emerged from
World War I physically and economically exhausted. "Wartime controls were removed with little time for adjustment, plunging the economy into a major recession. Unemployment peaked at 2 million in
November 1919, attributable mostly to demobilization. By 1920 inflation had risen another 200 percent over wartime inflation, as the lira fell by over 300 percent. These troubles almost matched the
inflation suffered during the war, and the net effect was to force many businesses into bankruptcy while wiping out the savings of the middle class" (Moore).
The working class also suffered, which led to an increase in labor movements. Between 1918 and 1920, membership in socialist unions rose from 250,000 to 2
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