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Totalitarianism in Italy
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9th Grade
05/19/2009

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Why did League of Nations fail?
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40-member nations couldn't agree on policies, including how to stop aggresive nations
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League of Nations
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created to ensure that a global war would never happen again
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Major worldwide problem in 1920's
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depression
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Depression
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period of rising unemployment and low econonic activity
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What did depression cause?
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hardship, leaders wanted to end suffering by setting up totalitarian gov'nts
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First person to set up totalitarian gov'nt
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Benito Mussolini
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Benito Mussolini
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used Treaty of Versailles and Italy's economic problems to gain power
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Big Three
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U.S., Britain, and France. gave land along Adriatic Sea to Yugoslavia. angered Italian nationalists
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Inflation
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rapid increases in prices of goods
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Who feared socialism?
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Middle-class owners of businesses and large landowners
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Mussolini
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gained power through fear
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Blackshirts
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broke up strikes and attacked Socialists' meetings and offices
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Dictator
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person has complete control of the gov'nt
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Mussolini's dictatorship was called...
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fascism
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Fascism
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totalitarian gov'nt that is not Communist
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corporate state
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workers grouped by occupations, groups called corporations
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Mussolini building nation based on...
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military discipline
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