Fascism in Italy

Legalized Police Terror to Eliminate Opposition

Followers of Mussolini marched into Italian cities in black shirts and beat up communists ,socialist, and union members.

Censorship and Propaganda

State controls the media. Writers are forced to glorify and praises the state.

Extreme Nationalism

Limited Human Rights

Fascist condemned democracy because they believed that rival political parties destroyed the unity of the state.

Indoctrination

Italian people were made to believe that war was the best way for Italy to regain their power

At the end of World War 1 Italy did not receive all the territories that they wanted. This lead many Italian Nationalists to denounce the government for their weakness.

Benito Mussolini

His motto was "Everything in the state, Nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

Fascists argued that a stronger state had every right to over come a weaker state.

Aggression represents action, while peace merely indicates weakness. War is the path to glory.

The idea of glory through war appealed to World War 1 veterans.

Mussolini told Italians that he could make Italy and empire and reminded them of ancient Rome to get them on his side.