The emergence of Benito Mussolini
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- The emergence of Benito Mussolini
- Conditions
- Father's socialist ideology
- Good oratorical skills
- Socialist politics -> was arrested
- Worked for socialist newspapers
- Weak and divided Italy
- Why?
- WW1 (1914-18)
- Against Italian intervention at first but later in favour of it because he wanted Italy to reclaim land from the Austro- Hungarian Empire
- Expelled from the Italian Socialist Party because of pro-war views
- Fought in the war from 1915 until 1917
- Demonstrated that Italy was unprepared for war
- Inflation and debt followed
- Against Italian intervention at first but later in favour of it because he wanted Italy to reclaim land from the Austro- Hungarian Empire
- The Red Two Years (1919-21)
- Protest against the post-war social and economic conditions
- Inspired by the Russian Revolution
- Food riots, looting and street violence
- Government lost control
- Industrialists and landowners turned to paramilitary organisations because the government under Giolitti's policies didn't offer effective protection to their properties
- WW1 (1914-18)
- Methods
- The Italian Combat Group, March 1919
- Inspired by the Roman Empire
- Ex-soldiers, discontented socialists and anarchists
- Italian regions had their own fascist leaders but they agreed that Mussolini should lead Fascism at a national level
- Appointed as prime minister
- Gave titles to officers to make them feel special
- Giacomo Matteotti
- Killed by fascists after insulting Mussolini
- Injected fear to the public
- Killed by fascists after insulting Mussolini
- Roman Catholic Church
- Mussolini portrayed himself as a good Catholic to gain the church's support
- E.g. renewed vows to his wife and christened his children in a Catholic Church in 1923
- Mussolini portrayed himself as a good Catholic to gain the church's support
- The Italian Combat Group, March 1919
- Conditions
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