Emergence of Mussolini up to 1922

Question 1

The Socialist Party had ____________ members in 1914.

Answer 1

50 000

Question 2

This historian claims that economic instability played a prominent role in the rise of Mussolini

Answer 2

Michael Mann

Question 3

This historian asserts that Mussolini was helped into power by the conservative elite who saw Mussolini as a preferable alternative to socialism

Answer 3

Stephen J Lee

Question 4

This structuralist historian argues that Mussolini’s rise to power was due more to circumstances in Italy than Mussolini’s own traits

Answer 4

Dennis Mack Smith

Question 5

The fascist account of the March on Rome claims this many fascists were killed

Answer 5

3000

Question 6

The term used to describe the middle class (or in a Marxist context, the capitalist class who own most of society’s wealth and the means of production)

Answer 6

bourgeoisie

Question 7

The term used to describe the working class in a society

Answer 7

proletariat

Question 8

During the Biennio Rosso there were strikes, factory occupations and land occupations involving over 1 million _______ across Italy

Answer 8

workers

Question 9

King Victor Emmanuel III asked Mussolini to form a government

Answer 9

October 29 1922

Question 10

This Prime Minister asked King Victor Emmanuel III to declare martial law

Answer 10

Facta

Question 11

October 1922

Answer 11

March on Rome

Question 12

Italian Popular Party (PPI) - the Catholic political party

Answer 12

Partito Popolare Italiano

Question 13

This dropped by over 25% for many workers during the period of hyperinflation post-WW1

Answer 13

real wages

Question 14

Prices increased by over ________% between 1915 and 1918

Answer 14

400

Question 15

The Two Red Years, 1919-1920

Answer 15

Biennio Rosso

Question 16

The office of the Pope

Answer 16

The Papacy

Question 17

The number of Italian officers seriously wounded in WW1

Answer 17

500 000

Question 18

The number of Italian officers permanently disabled as a result of fighting in WW1

Answer 18

400 000

Question 19

The number of Italians killed in WW1

Answer 19

600 000

Question 20

Italy joined the war in 1915 on the side of this alliance.

Answer 20

Triple Entente

Question 21

The number of Italians conscripted in WW1

Answer 21

5 million

Question 22

May 1915

Answer 22

Treaty of London

Question 23

Political development that aimed to ‘transform’ Italy’s political life, but which gave way to political factions and corruption in the liberal government.

Answer 23

trasformismo

Question 24

Italian word meaning ‘resurgence’ or ‘rebirth,’ and refers to the nationalist movement that called for political unification in Italy.

Answer 24

Risorgimento

Question 25

This man described fascism as 'action and mood, not doctrine.'

Answer 25

Mussolini

Question 26

In 1919 membership of the socialist trade unions rose from 250 000 to ______________________.

Answer 26

2 million

Question 27

Italy's national debt was increased from 16 billion lire to ________ billion lire to finance the war.

Answer 27

85

Question 28

In the May 1921 elections, Mussolini's fascists won what percentage of the vote?

Answer 28

0.07

Question 29

This man described the failure of the Italian government to gain Fiume at the Versailles Settlement as a 'mutilated victory'

Answer 29

D'Annunzio

Question 30

The major Adriatic port occupied by D'Annunzio's forces for 15 months (Sept 1919 - Dec 1920)

Answer 30

Fiume

Question 31

The term meaning 'unredeemed land'

Answer 31

terra irredenta

Question 32

This rose to over 2 million in 1919.

Answer 32

unemployment

Question 33

The government printing more banknotes led to this.

Answer 33

hyperinflation

Question 34

29 October 1922

Answer 34

Mussolini appointed Prime Minister

Question 35

The year that the Fasci di Combattimento was reformed into the Italian Fascist Party (PNF).

Answer 35

1921

Question 36

The man who asked Mussolini to form a government.

Answer 36

King Victor Emmanuel III

Question 37

a local fascist leader who commanded an action squad (squadre d'azione)

Answer 37

ras

Question 38

Italian Socialist Party

Answer 38

PSI

Question 39

1917 November battle against Austro-Hungarians and Germans where Italy suffered a humiliating defeat

Answer 39

Caporetto

Question 40

Governments which financed Il Popolo d'Italia.

Answer 40

The French, British, and Russian governments

Question 41

This car company financed Il Popolo d'Italia.

Answer 41

Fiat

Question 42

Mussolini split from the Italian Socialist Party and was sacked as editor of this publication.

Answer 42

Avanti!

Question 43

The man who founded the newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia in November 1914

Answer 43

Mussolini

Question 44

What does 'Il Popolo d'Italia' translate to in English?

Answer 44

The People of Italy

Question 45

against the church

Answer 45

anti-clerical

Question 46

National Fascist Party

Answer 46

PNF