Question | Answer |
Who was Benito Mussolini? | The Italian fascist dicator |
What was Mussolini's title and what did it mean? | IL Duce. The leader |
When and where was Mussolini born? | Italy 1883 |
When was the Italian fascist party formed? | 1919 |
What was the communist symbol? | A red flag |
Who were the blackshirts(sqadristi)? | The Italian fascist party |
What was the job of the brownshirts? | Restoring law and order by breaking up strikes and attacking communist meetings |
What was the March on Rome? | The marching of 30,000 fascists on Rome when the Italian government failed to solve Italys problems |
When was the March on Rome | October 1922 |
When Mussolini became prime minister, who did he replace? | Luigi Fatca |
What was the Acerbo law? | The law Mussolini set up stating that the party with the majority votes in an election would have 2/3 of the seats in parliment |
When was the Acerbo law set up? | 1923 |
What was the CORPORATE STATE? | When each government of Italy known as co-operates ran a different center. 22 corporations in total |
What is propaganda? | A form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community |
What was the Lateran treaty and concordat? | When Mussolini settled the old quarrel between the Pope and Italy in 1929 |
What did the Lateran Treaty and concordat state? | It gave the Pope and independent Vatican State within Rome. Made Catholisim the official religion in Italy |
What did Mussolini do in 1925 | Invaded Abyssinia |
What was the Rome-Berlin axis? | The Alliance with Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler |
What was the Rome-Berlin Axis changed to? | The Pact of Steal |
When did Italy join WWII? | 1940 |
When was Mussolini captured and killed | At the end of the war in 1945 |