He believed that only a strong leader like himself could defeat conflicts caused by other political parties (especially communists/socialists) and post-war problems (World War I). Mussolini’s first call to action was creating a group called the “Blackshirts” that would carry out beatings against communist leaders and throwing them out of office. People of all different backgrounds joined including teachers, business people, and store owners (Document 5). Mussolini constantly told his people that he was going to restore Italy back to its glorious Roman Empire era. He backed up his sayings by invading Ethiopia.
It was the American and British fighting to take over the axis power. The battle took place on the border of Anzio, Italy. The city is almost 30 miles from Rome. The battle was long it took over 4 months. June 22, 1994 to may 25,1994.
The Great Depression dominated the 1930s. The despair of the poor and unemployed eventually turned to hope as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the New Deal, an "alphabet soup" of programs designed to boost the economy through public works programs and other federal intervention. The failed experiment of Prohibition would end in 1934. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party came to power in Germany; Benito Mussolini 's Fascists expanded Italy 's empire, and Francisco Franco 's Falangists brought their own version of fascism to Spain. Before the decade ended, Europe would descend into war for the second time in the century.
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany were similar in that both were dictatorships. Both Mussolini and Hitler came to power through legal means and believed that people were divided into either inferior or superior races. For example, Hitler was obsessed with the Aryan race and called for the genocide of Jews during WWII. In addition, both Mussolini and Hitler favored the wealthy, believed that an individual was meaningless and must submit to the decisions of their leaders, and aimed at self-sufficiency so that each could survive entirely without international trade. Furthermore, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy “had aimed for prestige and power for their countries, and brought instead humiliation and destruction” (Tarr, R.,
When the modern capitalist society has emerged, capitalism has massively impacted on many social aspects. The system had led to the dissolution and to an end of the Feudal system during the Middle Ages. There are many political thoughts, which consisted of significant frameworks for reforming and making some new changes to the society. This essay will mainly focus on two main political ideologies and identify the differences between these two houses, which are Marx and Mussolini. First, the German thinker, Marx, and a letter called “ Manifesto of the Communist Party”, bring about the concept of communism that was being used in many areas back in the olden days.
Benito Mussolini, a former social Journalist, who was the leader that seized power and coined the term of Fascism. His ideas were fascist that aligns more with the authoritarian of modernity, believing that everything an individual does needs to be for the State over all other motives. Fascism combines mass movement with the aggression of authoritarian nationalism, antisocialist, and anti-liberal values. Mussolini’s fascism represented a counterrevolution following the Russian Revolution of 1917. Landowners and factory owners paid vigilante groups to attack socialist leaders.
In 1919, Benito Mussolini described fascism as “A movement that would strike against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left.” That “Fascism sitting on the right, could also have sat on the mountain of the center… These words in any case do not have a fixed and unchanged: they do have a variable subject to location, time and spirit. We don’t give a damn about these empty terminologies and we despise those who are terrorized by these words.” Fascism came into prominence in the early 20th-century Europe. It originated in Italy during World War I.
I do not believe that there is a future to fascism. As time goes on people have wanted more of a say in their government, and fascism would not lead to that. A system with fascism does not ever work, and it could lead to corruption and the killings on many people. Adolf Hitler is one of the main examples of what fascism could lead you to. He led a genocide in his own country that killed jews, political prisoners, the disabled, and homosexuals.
As the war continued the humanity of their spirits degraded at the gruesome horrors they had come to see. Fascism, was portrayed as the opposite of what the war meant. Fascists preached of humanity, rejecting society’s ideas and thinking for one’s self, and a chance at a government that cared more about the citizens then it did the economy or money. During the war, men were commanded to perform awful acts or witnesses them. The sons of the mothers who waited patiently for them were not the same when they returned from the war.
Mussolini further consolidates his power by eliminating other parties, providing the King to pick from a list approve by Mussolini for the new parliament, ensuring the security of his power. Mussolini exhibits totalitarianism ways, such as censoring the newspapers, and restricting the Italian people’s ideas to secure his total power. He presents himself, displaying himself as a warrior, strong, and fearless. In chapter 4, author David Large discusses Mussolini’s revenge on Adowa, the Ethiopian town, which the Italians were defeated when they tried to take control of the country in 1896. This chapter illustrates Mussolini fearlessness and desire to be seen as a powerful rule, describing in a detailed way Large present Mussolini as the fearless and determined leader he desired to be.
The major aspects affecting women under Mussolini’s reign in fascist Italy were the massive push for pro-natalist movements, Mussolini dreamed of a vast nation of fascist Italian soldiers having children with fascist Italian mothers that then gave birth to squads of fascist Italian children. He attempted this by introducing new laws and policies that limited the education on modern contraceptives, making abortions illegal, and giving incentives to women who could meet a “quota” on children birthed, some “quotas” being as high as seven or more depending on the job that the husband possessed. Although Mussolini’s attempt at growing a nation of massively multiplying Italian fascists failed, the ramifications on Italy as a whole can still be seen today. Women’s role in Mussolini’s Italy was nothing more than baby factories and mothers, he did not want them to aspire to be anything more or be anything more and the laws and policies he established portray this idea very clearly. These policies overflowed into the media and were easily visible, although not at the time, in the films that the culture was producing at the time.
The Minister of Internal Affairs Wilhelm Frik has pointed to a problem of low birth rate. The German women gave birth a little that harmfully affected the prosperity of the state. The decline of a family was considered as the influence of liberals and democrats. The new legislation on marriage and a family has been prepared (authors were Heinrich Himmler and Martin Borman). Fascists recognized from the fact that during the war the great number of men will die, and responsible mission is assigned to women of Germany: to give birth to as much as possible healthy children.
376) This description of Fascism indicates a government that is involved in the lives of its citizens to an extreme degree. By illustrating the government as a “powerful form of personality”, Mussolini alludes to the Fascist characteristic of organicism, where the state is seen as an organic whole being. Mussolini continues his
In fact, when Mussolini founded the Milan facio in March 1919, it had no clear-cut goals, except for a belief in action and a stated goal of strong foreign policy (Duggan, 2013). However, when Italy was driven from Fiume at the end of 1920, many Italians began to believe that Italy would have to develop strong foreign policy. In 1921, Mussolini formed the National Fascist Party and began to quickly amass power in the Italian government. One of the methods he did so was to tout
Benito Mussolini, who had a very dismissive attitude towards women, quickly established his stance on where the best place a woman should be at, which was back in the home taking care of her child(ren) and all household chores. In the 1920s, he was quoted by a female journalist as saying: “Women are a charming pastime, only if the man has time to pass… but women should never be taken seriously.” Prior to entering the Second World War, many Fascist throughout Italy had agreed that the feminist movement especially in regards to the suffrage movement was considered to be very “outdated”. They told women who were considered to be Fascist to reject such movements. The Fascist also were also seen to see eye to eye with the Church, which was the first time in Italy after almost 70 years of hostility between church and state.
