The Rise of Mussolini and the
Creation of a Fascist Dictatorship
- 1919 = 1926
WW1 victory = key to Fascist Narratve
Liberal state = post-war = embarrassment = Gabriel D’Annunzio, a natonalist poet seized
Fiume in 1919 = 300 ex-soldiers = Italy had failed to take it at Versailles negotatonsn
Economy in a state → Middle / Upper classes = feared a communist revoluton
Red years destabilise Italy = worker violence
Amidst the chaos = Benito Mussolini formed Fasci Di Combatmeneo = form = oppositon to
socialism / champion of Italian war triumph = formed of ex-soldiersn
How efecctie was ehe goiernmene in dealing wieh aealy’s problems following ehe frse world warI
Muctlaeed iiceory Occupacton of Fiume Pose-war economic crisis
WW1 = fear / Natonalist = right Italy’s economy weak
resentment / politcal wing groups = despise Millions = demobilised
change wanted liberals post war soldiers
Class violence rife treatment 1919 = unemployment
Ex-soldiers felt = D’Annunzio takes = 2,000,000
efforts ignored Fiume – 2000 men RAMPANT INFLATION
(fueurises, students, LIRA = NO VALUE
1. Austria patriots and ex- SAVINGS WIPED OUT
campaign soldiers) on 12eh BY BANKS
funded by Sepeember 1919 PENSIONS DECLINED
loans / Futurists – cultural WAGES FELL
printng movement started in 1909
– standing for violence,
Fiat, Ansaldo and Ilva
money → debt → struggled =
Patriotism + destruction =
+ infaton = end liberal system = ANSALDO + ILVA =
Italy disappointed with the lack collapsed 1921
2. Tension of radical action by
Banca Di Sconeo →
between Mussolini.
D’Annunzio – major bank collapses
south and 1921 whilse Ansaldo
landed gentry redempton for dead
soldiers and alia collapse
= land reform
not Removed on 25th
o BIENNO ROSSO =
materialising December 1920 by
aealian naiy = 15 RELEASE OF SOCIALIST
→ soldiers PRISONERS = labour
began monehs
D’Annunzio exploited strikes → 1919-1920
occupying o Membership of unions
farmland Rome’s weakness →
at the helm of decisive = 1918 – 1920 →
3. Tension
violent actonn 250,000 to 2,000,000
between
D’Annunzio accepted o Railway strikes →
soldiers and
January 1920
Creation of a Fascist Dictatorship
- 1919 = 1926
WW1 victory = key to Fascist Narratve
Liberal state = post-war = embarrassment = Gabriel D’Annunzio, a natonalist poet seized
Fiume in 1919 = 300 ex-soldiers = Italy had failed to take it at Versailles negotatonsn
Economy in a state → Middle / Upper classes = feared a communist revoluton
Red years destabilise Italy = worker violence
Amidst the chaos = Benito Mussolini formed Fasci Di Combatmeneo = form = oppositon to
socialism / champion of Italian war triumph = formed of ex-soldiersn
How efecctie was ehe goiernmene in dealing wieh aealy’s problems following ehe frse world warI
Muctlaeed iiceory Occupacton of Fiume Pose-war economic crisis
WW1 = fear / Natonalist = right Italy’s economy weak
resentment / politcal wing groups = despise Millions = demobilised
change wanted liberals post war soldiers
Class violence rife treatment 1919 = unemployment
Ex-soldiers felt = D’Annunzio takes = 2,000,000
efforts ignored Fiume – 2000 men RAMPANT INFLATION
(fueurises, students, LIRA = NO VALUE
1. Austria patriots and ex- SAVINGS WIPED OUT
campaign soldiers) on 12eh BY BANKS
funded by Sepeember 1919 PENSIONS DECLINED
loans / Futurists – cultural WAGES FELL
printng movement started in 1909
– standing for violence,
Fiat, Ansaldo and Ilva
money → debt → struggled =
Patriotism + destruction =
+ infaton = end liberal system = ANSALDO + ILVA =
Italy disappointed with the lack collapsed 1921
2. Tension of radical action by
Banca Di Sconeo →
between Mussolini.
D’Annunzio – major bank collapses
south and 1921 whilse Ansaldo
landed gentry redempton for dead
soldiers and alia collapse
= land reform
not Removed on 25th
o BIENNO ROSSO =
materialising December 1920 by
aealian naiy = 15 RELEASE OF SOCIALIST
→ soldiers PRISONERS = labour
began monehs
D’Annunzio exploited strikes → 1919-1920
occupying o Membership of unions
farmland Rome’s weakness →
at the helm of decisive = 1918 – 1920 →
3. Tension
violent actonn 250,000 to 2,000,000
between
D’Annunzio accepted o Railway strikes →
soldiers and
January 1920
