Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Fascism
- Rise of fascism
- what is fascism?
- 1. a right winged political ideology
- 2. strong emphasis on nationalism
- 3. Fascist parties organised along military lines with a single leader
- 4. implemented dictatorship
- 5. Opposition parties, trade unions banned
- 6. Elections abolished
- 7. opposed to democracy, liberalism, communism
- 8. Anti- semitic
- 9. use of propaganda, intimidation and terror
- Factors in the rise of fascism
- economic factors
- Major instability weakened polictical life
- uncontrollable inflation wiped out savings and
created mass unemployment
- Treaty of Versailles
- Dissatisfaction with terms of ww1 peace
- Italy never got promised teritory
- harsh reprations ]
- new states established with the break up of
empires borders caused friction over borders
- Fear of communism
- The upper middle class feared the spread of
communism following the russian revolution
- communst revolts in germany, austria and
hungary in 1919 contributed to this fear
- Fasciam was seen as a better barrier
to communism than democracy
- Support from middle class
- The middle class(maily rural) felt trapped
between and the wealthy
- fascism claimed to represent their interests
- Rise of fascism Italy
- Impact of ww1
- Italy divided over ww1
- Treaty of london 1915
- 600,000 killed - 1 million wounded
- war debt of 85 billion ire (£85 m )
- Treaty of Versailles
- Rising inflation as government prints money
to pay war debt
- Devolpment of Fascism
- 1919 mussolini establishes 'combat groups'
- use sumbols from Roman Empire
- uniformed black shirts
- support from ex- army officers,
students and middle class
- 1921 mussolini forms national fascist party
- Financial support from FIAT, Pirelli
tyre company and italian banks
- 1919 - 1922 2,00 opponents killed by fascist
- 1922 fascists help break a general strike
- 1922 300,000 members
- March on Rome
- Oct. 1022 - Mussolini demands to be
made Prime Minister
- Announces 'march on rome'
- fascists occupy towns across north and central italy
- King refuses to declare a State Of
Emergency and use army to crach fascist
- King gives in and appoints missolini prime minister
- fascist stage 'victory march' in rome
- Establishing a dictatorship
- 1923 Acerbo Law - The party that gained the greatest
number of votes in the election would get 2 thirds of the
seats
- In the elction mussolini used violoence to make sure he won
- Rule by decree- make laws without going through parliament
- All other polictical parties were banned
- press and radio censored
- secret police (1926) - The OVRA were used to
crush the opposition
- Mussolini was called Il Duce and a cult of
personality devolped around him
- The Corporate State
- Goal was to eliminate conflict between
employers and workers
- all were to work for a common good
- trade unions banned and
strikes forbidden
- problems solved by negotiations
- in reality fascists were in control and issued orders
to negotiating sides
- wages fell and living standards remained low
- Economic Policy
- Mussolini improved the main road system
by building motor ways
- he reclaimed the Pontine Marshes near Rome which
provided more land and helped to prevent malaria
- He Promoted the battle for grain doubed grain production
- he promoted the battle for births to increase italian population
- Relations with the Catholic Church
- ongoing dispute of church lands
during unificatio of italy
- The catholic church welcomed
Mussolini as a safeguard against
communism
- religious instructions was
allowed in primary school
- in 1923 the govt. rescued the catholic
banck of rome from financial
difficulties
- mussolini had a caothlis marraige
and baptosed his children
- Foreign Policy
- Invasion of Abyssinia
- Spanish Civil war
- Rome Berlin Axis 1936
- Pact of steel 1939
- World War 2