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a collapse of society that would bring him to power Called up for military service he was wounded in grenade practice in 1917 and returned to edit his paper Fascism became an organized political movement in March 1919 when Mussolini founded the Fasci de Combattimento After failing in the 1919 elections Mussolini at last entered parliament in 1921 as a rightwing member The Fascisti formed armed squads to terrorize Mussolini&apos;s former Socialist colleagues The government seldom interfered In return for the support of a group of industrialists and agrarians Mussolini gave his approval to strikebreaking and he abandoned revolutionary agitation When the liberal governments of Giovanni Giolitti Ivanoe Bonomi and Luigi Facta failed to stop the spread of anarchy Mussolini was invited by the king in October 1922 to form a government Fascist Dictatorship At first he was supported by the Liberals in parliament With their help he introduced strict censorship and altered the methods of election so that in 19251926 he was able to assume dictatorial powers and dissolve all other political parties Skillfully using his absolute control over the press he gradually built up the legend of the Duce a man who was always right and could solve all the problems of politics and economics Italy was soon a police state With those who tried to resist him for example the Socialist Giacomo Matteotti he showed himself utterly ruthless But Mussolini&apos;s skill in propaganda was such that he had surprisingly little opposition At various times after 1922 Mussolini personally took over the ministries of the interior of foreign affairs of the colonies of the corporations of the army and the other armed services and of public works Sometimes he held as many as seven departments simultaneously as well as the premiership He was also head of the allpowerful Fascist party formed in 1921 and the armed Fascist militia In this way he succeeded in keeping power in his own hands and preventing the emergence of any rival But it was at the price of creating a regime that was overcentralized inefficient and corrupt Most of his time was spent on propaganda whether at home or abroad and here his training as a journalist was invaluable Press radio education filmsall were carefully supervised to manufacture the illusion that fascism was the doctrine of the 20th century that was replacing liberalism and democracy The principles of this doctrine were laid down in the article on fascism reputedly written by himself that appeared in 1932 in the Enciclopedia Italiana In 1929 a concordat with the Vatican was signed by which the Italian state was at last recognized by the Roman Catholic Church Under the dictatorship the parliamentary system was virtually abolished The law codes were rewritten All teachers in schools and universities had to swear an oath to defend the Fascist regime Newspaper editors were all personally chosen by Mussolini himself and no one could practice journalism who did not possess a certificate of approval from the Fascist party The trade unions were also deprived of any independence and were integrated into what was called the corporative system The aim never completely achieved was to place all Italians in various professional organizations or corporations all of them under governmental control Mussolini played up to his financial backers at first by transferring a number of industries from public to private ownership But by the 1930&apos;s he had begun moving back to the opposite extreme of rigid governmental control of industry A great deal of money was spent on public works But the economy suffered from his exaggerated attempt to make Italy selfsufficient There was too much concentration on heavy industry for which Italy lacked the resources Military Aggression In foreign policy Mussolini soon shifted from pacifist antiimperialism to an extreme form of aggressive nationalism An early example of this was his bombardment of Corfu in 1923 Soon after this he succeeded in setting up a puppet regime in Albania and in reconquering Libya It was his dream to make the Mediterranean mare nostrum our sea In 1935 at the Stresa Conference he helped create an antiHitler front in order to defend the independence of Austria But his successful war against Abyssinia Ethiopia in 19351936 was opposed by the League of Nations and he was forced to seek an alliance with Nazi Germany which had withdrawn from the League in 1933 His active intervention in 19361939 on the side of Gen Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War ended any possibility of reconciliation with France and Britain As a result he had to accept the German annexation of Austria in 1938 and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in 1939 At the Munich Conference in September 1938 he posed as a moderate working for European peace But his axis with Germany was confirmed when he made the Pact of Steel with Hitler in May 1939 Clearly the subordinate partner Mussolini followed the Nazis in adopting a racial policy that led to persecution of the Jews and the creation of apartheid in the Italian empire As World War II approached Mussolini announced his intention of annexing Malta Corsica and Tunis In April 1939 after a brief war he occupied Albania Failing to realize that he had more to gain by trying to hold the balance of power in Europe he preferred to rely on a policy of bluff and bluster to induce the Western democracies to give way to his increasing territorial demands Although he had preached for 15 years about the virtues of war and the military readiness of Italy to fight his armed forces were completely unprepared when Hitler&apos;s invasion of Poland led to World War II He decided to remain nonbelligerent until he was quite certain which side would win Only after the fall of France did he declare war in June 1940 hoping that the war had only a few weeks more to run His attack on Greece in October revealed to everyone that he had done nothing to prepare an effective military machine He had no option but to follow Hitler in declaring war on Russia in June 1941 and on the United States in December 1941 Following Italian defeats on all fronts and the AngloAmerican landing in Sicily in 1943 most of Mussolini&apos;s colleagues turned against him at a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council on July 25 1943 This enabled the king to dismiss and arrest him Rescued by the Germans several months later Mussolini set up a Republican Fascist state in northern Italy But he was little more than a puppet under the protection of the German Army In this Republic of Salo Mussolini returned to his earlier ideas of socialism and collectivization He also executed some of the Fascist leaders who had abandoned him including his soninlaw Galeazzo Ciano Increasingly he tried to shift the blame for defeat onto the Italian people who had not been great enough to appreciate his imperial dream In April 1945 just before the Allied armies reached Milan Mussolini along with his mistress Clara Petacci was caught by Italian partisans as he tried to take refuge in Switzerland He was summarily executed The Duce was survived by his wife Rachele by two sons Vittorio and Romano and his daughter Edda the widow of Count Ciano A third son Bruno had been killed in an air accident&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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Mussolini&apos;s former Socialist colleagues The government seldom interfered In return for the support of a group of industrialists and agrarians Mussolini gave his approval to strikebreaking and he abandoned revolutionary agitation When the liberal governments of Giovanni Giolitti Ivanoe Bonomi and Luigi Facta failed to stop the spread of anarchy Mussolini was invited by the king in October 1922 to form a government Fascist Dictatorship At first he was supported by the Liberals in parliament With their help he introduced strict censorship and altered the methods of election so that in 19251926 he was able to assume dictatorial powers and dissolve all other political parties Skillfully using his absolute control over the press he gradually built up the legend of the Duce a man who was always right and could solve all the problems of politics and economics Italy was soon a police state With those who tried to resist him for example the Socialist Giacomo Matteotti he showed himself utterly ruthless But Mussolini&apos;s skill in propaganda was such that he had surprisingly little opposition At various times after 1922 Mussolini personally took over the ministries of the interior of foreign affairs of the colonies of the corporations of the army and the other armed services and of public works Sometimes he held as many as seven departments simultaneously as well as the premiership He was also head of the allpowerful Fascist party formed in 1921 and the armed Fascist militia In this way he succeeded in keeping power in his own hands and preventing the emergence of any rival But it was at the price of creating a regime that was overcentralized inefficient and corrupt Most of his time was spent on propaganda whether at home or abroad and here his training as a journalist was invaluable Press radio education filmsall were carefully supervised to manufacture the illusion that fascism was the doctrine of the 20th century that was replacing liberalism and democracy The principles of this doctrine were laid down in the article on fascism reputedly written by himself that appeared in 1932 in the Enciclopedia Italiana In 1929 a concordat with the Vatican was signed by which the Italian state was at last recognized by the Roman Catholic Church Under the dictatorship the parliamentary system was virtually abolished The law codes were rewritten All teachers in schools and universities had to swear an oath to defend the Fascist regime Newspaper editors were all personally chosen by Mussolini himself and no one could practice journalism who did not possess a certificate of approval from the Fascist party The trade unions were also deprived of any independence and were integrated into what was called the corporative system The aim never completely achieved was to place all Italians in various professional organizations or corporations all of them under governmental control Mussolini played up to his financial backers at first by transferring a number of industries from public to private ownership But by the 1930&apos;s he had begun moving back to the opposite extreme of rigid governmental control of industry A great deal of money was spent on public works But the economy suffered from his exaggerated attempt to make Italy selfsufficient There was too much concentration on heavy industry for which Italy lacked the resources Military Aggression In foreign policy Mussolini soon shifted from pacifist antiimperialism to an extreme form of aggressive nationalism An early example of this was his bombardment of Corfu in 1923 Soon after this he succeeded in setting up a puppet regime in Albania and in reconquering Libya It was his dream to make the Mediterranean mare nostrum our sea In 1935 at the Stresa Conference he helped create an antiHitler front in order to defend the independence of Austria But his successful war against Abyssinia Ethiopia in 19351936 was opposed by the League of Nations and he was forced to seek an alliance with Nazi Germany which had withdrawn from the League in 1933 His active intervention in 19361939 on the side of Gen Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War ended any possibility of reconciliation with France and Britain As a result he had to accept the German annexation of Austria in 1938 and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in 1939 At the Munich Conference in September 1938 he posed as a moderate working for European peace But his axis with Germany was confirmed when he made the Pact of Steel with Hitler in May 1939 Clearly the subordinate partner Mussolini followed the Nazis in adopting a racial policy that led to persecution of the Jews and the creation of apartheid in the Italian empire As World War II approached Mussolini announced his intention of annexing Malta Corsica and Tunis In April 1939 after a brief war he occupied Albania Failing to realize that he had more to gain by trying to hold the balance of power in Europe he preferred to rely on a policy of bluff and bluster to induce the Western democracies to give way to his increasing territorial demands Although he had preached for 15 years about the virtues of war and the military readiness of Italy to fight his armed forces were completely unprepared when Hitler&apos;s invasion of Poland led to World War II He decided to remain nonbelligerent until he was quite certain which side would win Only after the fall of France did he declare war in June 1940 hoping that the war had only a few weeks more to run His attack on Greece in October revealed to everyone that he had done nothing to prepare an effective military machine He had no option but to follow Hitler in declaring war on Russia in June 1941 and on the United States in December 1941 Following Italian defeats on all fronts and the AngloAmerican landing in Sicily in 1943 most of Mussolini&apos;s colleagues turned against him at a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council on July 25 1943 This enabled the king to dismiss and arrest him Rescued by the Germans several months later Mussolini set up a Republican Fascist state in northern Italy But he was little more than a puppet under the protection of the German Army In this Republic of Salo Mussolini returned to his earlier ideas of socialism and collectivization He also executed some of the Fascist leaders who had abandoned him including his soninlaw Galeazzo Ciano Increasingly he tried to shift the blame for defeat onto the Italian people who had not been great enough to appreciate his imperial dream In April 1945 just before the Allied armies reached Milan Mussolini along with his mistress Clara Petacci was caught by Italian partisans as he tried to take refuge in Switzerland He was summarily executed The Duce was survived by his wife Rachele by two sons Vittorio and Romano and his daughter Edda the widow of Count Ciano A third son Bruno had been killed in an air accident</media:description>
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