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History 12 Week 06 Fascist Italy
Fascist Italy
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History
12th Grade
03/04/2009

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Benito Mussolini

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fascist leader of Italy
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Il Duce

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title given to Mussolini
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Black Shirts

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Moussolini's combat troops

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Matteotti

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socialist leader murdered in 1924

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Gabriel D'Annunzio

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poet and WW1 pilot who helped found Italian fascism
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Avanti

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Socialist Newspaper destroyed by Fascists
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proportional representation
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Italian voting system that led to many minority governments
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Victor Emmanuel

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King of Italy
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Il Popolo d'Italia

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Mousolini's newspaper
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March on Rome

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1922 threat of revolution that led to Mussolini's appointment as prime minister
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fasces

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Moussolini's symbol of fascism
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dictatorship

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a government that rules with one leader with absolute power
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Acerbo Law
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act that gave Italy's ruling party 66% of seats as long as they had at least 25% of the votes
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autarky
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economic self sufficiently; a basic element of Fascism
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Lateran Treaty

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agreement between Moussolini and Pope Pius 11th that reduced tensions between Italy and the Vatican
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Locarno Pact

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1925 treaty in which Italy, Britian, France, and Germany agreed to respect the French-German Border as determined by the Treaty of Versailles
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Abyssinia/Ethiopia

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African nation invaded by Italy in 1935
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Spanish Civil War

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conflict in which Mossolini supported Franco
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Dollfuss

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Austrian leader assassinated by Austrian Nazis
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