Italian Fascism

The events of World War I helped pave the way for the birth of the fascist party in Italy. There was much political unease due to strife between the social classes and a lack of trust in the ruling powers & governing system that was in place at the time. This combined with the destruction and despair that came with the war led people to look for a better belief system.


Benito Mussolini, who had been an ardent socialist began to see that socialism would not solve Italy's problems and so he began to culminate a different option, Italian Fascism. The Fascist political party's belief system "included elements of nationalism, corporatism, national syndicalism, expansionism, social progress and anti-communism in combination with censorship of subversives and state propaganda. Fascism would come to be defined by these two characteristics: opposition to Socialism and explicit nationalism," according to Wikipedia *1 (see source below).

Here is a video clip that presents a look at Fascism:


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sources:
*1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Fascism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/Fascism/Intro.html