The rise and fall of fascism Italy (1911-1946)

Question 1

Trasformismo

Answer 1

Different political factions forming a coalition government regardless of differences excluding the extremist parties making them feel isolated

Question 2

Lire

Answer 2

The Italian currency

Question 3

Socialists

Answer 3

Work to improve the political and economic status of the working class

Question 4

Roman Question

Answer 4

This was the term used to describe the split between the Italian state and the Catholic Church

Question 5

Universal male suffrage

Answer 5

The right to vote for all men over the age of 21 in 1912

Question 6

Anticlericals

Answer 6

Politicians (mainly liberal) who opposed the Catholic Church to have a position in the liberal state

Question 7

Irridentism

Answer 7

The demand that Italy seize from Austria those lands on its North and East borders where majority of the population spoke Italian

Question 8

Triple Alliance

Answer 8

Military Alliance between Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary

Question 9

Entente Powers

Answer 9

An alliance of Britain, France and Russia

Question 10

Armistice

Answer 10

Agreement to cease fighting

Question 11

Trade unions

Answer 11

Organisation, often socialists which seek to improve the pay and conditions of their members - represented several million factory and farm workers

Question 12

Mutilated victory

Answer 12

The claim that Italy had been denied its rightful territorial gains in the peace settlement after the first World War

Question 13

Squadrismo

Answer 13

The violent attacks of Fascist gangs

Question 14

Ras

Answer 14

Local Fascists leaders

Question 15

Anti-semitism

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Hatred for Jews

Question 16

National militia

Answer 16

Fascists squads were converted into a national militia giving them legal status, the blackshirt militia was under control of the Fascist party

Question 17

Acerbo law

Answer 17

A law that stated that you need 25% of the votes to gain 2/3 of the seats in Parliament

Question 18

Ballot-rigging

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Fixing the result of an election by destroying vote casts for opposition parties or adding voting papers

Question 19

Press censorship

Answer 19

Newspapers are no longer permitted to criticise the government

Question 20

Leggi Fascistissime

Answer 20

Fascist laws which banned all opposition parties and organisation

Question 21

Personal Dictatorship

Answer 21

A regime where a single person holds total power, person is allowed to make their own laws and arrest opponents at will

Question 22

Cult of the Duce

Answer 22

The promotion of Mussolini as the ‘supreme leader’ (Duce)

Question 23

OVRA

Answer 23

Fascist secret police

Question 24

Depression

Answer 24

A period of economic stagnation(still) that began in the USA and affected all European industries