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

Socialists

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Roman Question

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Universal male suffrage

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Anticlericals

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Irridentism

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Triple Alliance

Answer 7

Military Alliance between Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary

Question 8

Entente Powers

Answer 8

An alliance of Britain, France and Russia

Question 9

Armistice

Answer 9

Agreement to cease fighting

Question 10

Trade unions

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Mutilated victory

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Squadrismo

Answer 12

The violent attacks of Fascist gangs

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Ras

Answer 13

Local Fascists leaders

Question 14

Anti-semitism

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Hatred for Jews

Question 15

National militia

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Acerbo law

Answer 16

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

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Press censorship

Answer 17

Newspapers are no longer permitted to criticise the government

Question 18

Leggi Fascistissime

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Fascist laws which banned all opposition parties and organisation

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Personal Dictatorship

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Cult of the Duce

Answer 20

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

Question 21

OVRA

Answer 21

Fascist secret police

Question 22

Depression

Answer 22

A period of economic stagnation(still) that began in the USA and affected all European industries
1929-39

Question 23

League of Nations (LON)

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Battle of grain

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Fascism’s attempt to make Italy self-sufficient in the production of grain and thus bread

Question 25

Lateran Agreements

Answer 25

A treaty and deal know a concordat, which officially ended the dispute about the role of status of the Catholic Church in the Italian state

Question 26

Balilla

Answer 26

Organisation for children aged between 8 and 14 years. Through sporting activities, children were taught the beliefs and values of being a Fascist.

Question 27

Vatican City

Answer 27

Area of Rome, which was ruled by the pope and was completely independent from the Italian state

Question 28

Anschluss

Answer 28

Meaning ‘union’, referring to the annexation (seizure) of Austria by Germany, which had been prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles

Question 29

Sudetenland

Answer 29

An area in Czechoslovakia, bordering Germany

Question 30

Plebiscite

Answer 30

A direct vote in which the entire population is asked to vote on a particular

Question 31

Rome-Berlin Axis (1936)

Answer 31

Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936.

Question 32

Concordat

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An agreement or treaty between vatican and a secular government

Question 33

Trincerocrazia

Answer 33

(The role of the trenches) The idea that the returned soldiers want more power to create a patriotic feeling to togetherness