Mussolini Coming To Power

Mussolini Coming To Power

Mussolini Coming To Power

Introduction

The interwar period (1919-1939) was a time of disbelief and the crisis of liberal society. This society, now discredited, was forged in the nineteenth century, with the affirmation of capitalism as an economic system perfect. In the second half of this century, the world absorbed the progress of the second phase of the Industrial Revolution whose height is between 1870 and 1914. Imperialism and European colonialism gave the major countries of the continent and the world hegemony, so an optical faces the future with enthusiasm and optimism. After the First World War (1914-1918), power poles ended (Germany, England, France, Russia, etc.). After the First World War, in the 1920s and 1930s, the emergence of fascist movements and regimes in Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal and other countries. In a broad sense, the term fascism applies to political regimes of authoritarian and corporatist regimes contrary both to democracy as liberal to socialist-inspired (Sullivan, 1988, p.106). In this sense the term fascism also covers National Socialism (Nazism) German, Spanish national-syndicalism and other movements with their own peculiarities. In the strictest sense, fascism was the social-political system deployed in 1922 by Benito Mussolini in Italy and overthrown in 1943, with the defeat of the country by the allied armies at the end of World War II.

Fascism in Italy was established a decade before the arrival of Hitler (Nazism) to power, given the context of Italy in World War I and due to a fear that liberals take power, Mussolini was able to come to power in Italy as Italian prime minister. Fascism was somehow the result of a general feeling of fear and anxiety among the middle class of the postwar convergence of pressures due interrelated economic, political and cultural (De, 1995, p.14).

History of Fascism

Fascism is an authoritarian right-wing developed by Benedict Mussolini, from 1919 in Italy. The term Fascism derives from “fasciocutaneous”, name of the political group that emerged in Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. On March 23, 1919, was founded by Mussolini's Fascist movement, in the city of Milan Among the founding members were revolutionary syndicalism leaders Agostino Lanzillo and Michele Bianchini.

Fascists, in 1922, organized a march on Rome, as they purported to take power militarily and occupy public buildings and railway stations, demanding the formation of a new cabinet. While, fascists, in 1923, began to develop a program of separation of church and state, a national army, a progressive tax, cooperative development and especially the Italian Republic (Ringo, 2008, p.36).

Fascism in Italy

With the end of World War I (1914 - 1918) in Italy was ignored the treaties that sealed the conflict. The wear social and economic evil rewarded mobilized different political groups engaged in solving the problems of the Italian nation. In 1920, a general strike of more than two million workers demonstrated the chaotic situation in the country lived. In the countryside, peasant groups Southerners demanded the implementation of agrarian ...