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Il Duce Mussolini’s Rise to Power
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QW If you are friends with Hitler, what does that say about you?
Italy during the 1920s & 1930s • Democracies had been weakened by WWI and the Great Depression • Italy feels cheated by Treaty of Versailles • Many businessmen are worried about the communists seizing power
Benito Mussolini • Son of a Communist blacksmith and a school teacher • WWI veteran (wounded during training) • Founded the Fascist Party in 1919
Fascism • Centralized, authoritarian government whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to civil rights. • Extreme Nationalism • Glorify action and discipline • Blind loyalty to the state • Glorified Warfare
QW • Based on what you just wrote about fascism, could any mainstream American political figure be realistically labeled a fascist? ie. President Obama
Mussolini calls for: • Revived economy • Rebuild the Armed Forces • Anti-communist • Anti-democracy • Created the “Black Shirts” (Fascist Thugs) • Beat & sometimes killed communists and political rivals
Seizes Power • March on Rome (1922) • Worried about civil war, the King names Mussolini Prime Minister. • Mussolini therefore took power “legally.”
Fascists Fascists
Mussolini in Power • Wanted to rebuild Italy into the Roman Empire • Censored the press • Built a strong military • Started public works projects to help during the depression • Secret police jailed opposition leaders
Il Duce (1922 to 1945) • Ultimately caught trying to leave Italy. • Shot and his corpse was displayed on a building in Milan