Italy post-WW2

Question 1

3 main challenges post-WW2

Answer 1

-Economic and social
-Political *
-Foreign

Question 2

What did Italians lack post WW2?

Answer 2

Food and clean water

Question 3

What was high following WW2?

Answer 3

Unemployment; millions unemployed.
Cost of living: 23x higher than in 1938.

Question 4

What type of killings occurred post- WW2? How many?

Answer 4

Partisan revenge killings; 30,000 following Germany’s surrender.

Question 5

What did Italy vote to become after WW2? When? How many voted for this?

Answer 5

A republic; June 1946; 12.7 million vs 10.7 million.

Question 6

What electoral system was introduced? Who could vote?

Answer 6

PR. Everyone, and women for the first time.

Question 7

Who won the majority of the vote?

Answer 7

Christian Democrats (37%), socialists (21%), communists (19%).

Question 8

What did the president become? Who was the PM elected by?

Answer 8

-Symbolic
-Parliament.

Question 9

Where did Italy lose lands?

Answer 9

Africa

Question 10

What did Italy have to do with Fiume?

Answer 10

Give it back to Yugoslavia.

Question 11

Who did Italy have to pay compensation to?

Answer 11

Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece.