Italy

By k.enz0

  • Fascist Party is Founded

    Mussolini founded the Fascist Party in Italy with support of anti-communists (business people, property owners, and middle-class professionals).

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Mussolini saw Italy as weak because of the Treaty of Versailles.
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    Italy

  • The Fascists

    The first Fascist squad was formed in Ferrara.
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    Eradication of Opposition

    Throughout the year, armed fascist squads killed 2,000 people. They also beat many others. Driven by feelings of nationalism and oppression, not many dared to oppose.

  • Mussolini takes power

    Mussolini & followers strom Prime Minister in Rome.
    Took power from the king
    Set up a new form of government
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    Mussolini's laissez-faire economric policy

    Liberal finance minister Alberto De Stefani.
    De Stefani: reduced taxes, regulations, & trade restrictions; allowed businesses to compete with one another
    De Stefani was forced to resign due to opposition to protectionism and business subsities causeing the alienation of some industrial leaders
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    MIlitary Expendatures

    Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Albania made Italy predominant in the Mediterranean.
    Armed forces exhausted by late 1930s.
    National poverty, poor resources, industrial weakness, plus inflexible commanders, caused the downfall of the Italian.
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    Libya conquered

  • March on Rome

    Mussolini and the Blackshirts (Mussolini's squad of streetfighters-many were unemployed war veterans) marched in Rome to unnerve the governmental figures. Government leaders resigned after feeling uneasy about the scale of the situation.

  • Prime Minister

    Mussolini became Italy's youngest prime minister.
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    Somalia conquered

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    Beginning of Fascist Contol & Censorship

    This year marked the beinning of new fascist policy implementation. Newspapers and magazines could not be published without governmental approval. Political opposition was arrested. Fascist control was taught in schools.

  • Italian General Elections

    Benito Mussolini and his Fascist Party used intimidation techniques to win the election with 2/3 majority of the votes. Because of their win, they automatically received 2/3 of the seats in Parliament under the Acerbo law.

  • Mussolini's new economic policy

    Believed economies did not operate constructively wihtout government supervision.
    Began program of massive deficit spending, public works, and militarism

  • Fascist economy

    Fascist economy guided by complex network of employere, worker, and jointly run organizations representing crafts and inductries at every level (local, provincial, and national).
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    Intensified autarchuc policies

    The depression and economic sanctions imposed by other countries (because of the invasion of Ethiopia) led to these intense policies.
    Mussolini decided government bureaus can only buy Italian products.

  • War preperation

    Government used protectionist measures to turn the economy toward autarchy (economic selfsufficiency).
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    Ethiopia conquered

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    Help Nationalists win Spanish civil war

  • Albania conquered

  • Pact of Steel

    Italy and Germany created a military and political alliance