National Fascist Party

The Fascists are promising security and national pride to their people. These nations, who were defeated in WWI, are suffering the consequences of being the losers in that war. In 1919, Benito Mussolini organized a group of veterans who called themselves the "Blackshirts". These men used violence to defeat any organizations against the Fascists. By 1923, the Blackshirts officially became the national militia. The King

1. Fascism was motivated by the fears of of social as well as political disintegration, and of political revolution on the part of both ruling of the lower and middle classes (Encylopedia.com Editors, 2017). Europe would later see many Nazi and Fascists movements during the time period between World War 1 and World War 2; however, in only Italy and Germany did these forms of government manage to come to power and develop into their respective regimes (Encylopedia.com Editors, 2017). While these

film is surely persuaded to sympathize with the Nazi party, who are presented as orderly and civilized, yet strong and brave. However, Triumph of the Will does nothing to persuade skeptical Germans of why they should have supported the Nazi party, or why Jews were being systematically rounded up. Instead, the film leaves out any actions that could have been questioned, and provides no actual, concrete reasons for the necessity of the Nazi party and Hitler’s leadership. It only presents Hitler as a

Benito Mussolini and his creation of Fascism was the glue that held Italy together. Fascism promised national unity and condemned the Socialist party. To understand how Fascism became powerful within Italy, it is imperative to acknowledge the driving force behind this regime. To put it bluntly, violence played an essential role in the development of the Fascist party. Mussolini’s practice of fierceness was able to create a formidable system of government that did not tolerate weakness. In 1919, Benito

A fundamental corner stone in Fascist ideology was the desire to expand into new territories and re-obtain old ones; which makes us then question the populations willing association with it when the regime brought them to the brink of the second world war in 1938. As far as Italy’s justification for joining the war, it was the opportunity the regime had been waiting for, to take part in a war and achieve a glorious victory for the Father-land. As Philip Morgan explains “ The only justification for

After WWI, Italy introduced proportional representation to its constitutional monarchy. This gave minor parties, like Mussolini’s Italian Fasci of Combat the opportunity to gain seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Despite only having 0.4% of the votes, Mussolini was able to form a coalition with other parties in the 1921 general election. Similarly, in the 1928 German federal election, the Nazi party won 12 seats from a measly 2.6% of the vote. Although they did not hold much power, their political ideologies

Mussolini’s “Doctrine of Fascism”, written in the Encyclopedia Italiana in 1932, he writes of how “Fascism conceives of the state as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative”(YB). He brought in the concepts of national solidarity and the idea of state management of economic affairs, through his introduction of

authoritarian regimes of the conservative, traditional, national and religious type (always considered by the Left to be

appears to stride through 20th-century Italian history like a buffoon, a fascist dictator whose ludicrous posing was dwarfed by the incalculably more sinister nature of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. Young socialist Mussolini was born in 1883. As a young man, he was a rousing orator, a tireless journalist – and a socialist. In 1912, after years of hack journalism and self-promotion, he was appointed editor of the Socialist Party newspaper Avanti!, preaching left wing revolution. But, when the First

Victor Emmanuel III opened to the door for Mussolini and his National Fascist Party to assume complete control in Italy. He used his paramilitary soldiers to crush all opposition to his authority, something all the rest of the fascist states in Europe would follow. Around the same time another fascist movement began to emerge in Germany – it was called ‘The National Socialist German Workers Party’; it was led by Adolf Hitler. Fascists in Germany followed the same concepts as Italian ones. In less