Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

important to the history of modern Italy because of its lasting influence. It has shaped and affected many areas of Italian society, such as its economy, politics, and social communication. Negative views toward the government and high levels of unemployment preceding this time led to the rise in right-wing politics and Fascism has made lasting impacts on the right-wing parties still in existence today. This literature review will discuss the rise and fall of fascism in Italy through Adrian Lyttelton’s The

World War II, also known as: Second World War, a conflict that went on through the years 1935-1945. The Axis powers involved-Germany,Italy,and Japan. And the allies involved-France,Great Britain,United States,the Soviet Union,and China. After an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. The 40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in history. With World War I, in the 20th-Century geopolitical history

movements set out to create a new type of total culture in which values; politics, art, social norms and economic activity are all part of a single organic community. In this way fascism is directly opposed to consevatism. The fascist movements in Italy and Germany also represented attempts to create revolutionary new modern states. Even though fascist movements try to bring about revolutionary change, they emphasis the revival of a mythical ethnic, racial or national past. They revise conventional

closely evaluated is Italy in the Second World War, a book adapted from the words of the Italian ruler Pietro Badoglio. Because of its origin, the book is very valuable. Badoglio was the ruler of Italy during World War II, and having the viewpoint of the Italian leader during this conflict provides insight into how the Italians viewed the Italian Campaign. The book includes several documents and translated quotes from Badoglio that specifically refer to what happened in Italy during World War II.

self-defense”. A couple of years, in 1939, Italy invaded Albania, after Albania rejected the ultimatum that demanded that Italy’s occupation be acceded. As a result, Fascists slogans indicated that Albania should became an Italian protectorate. June 10, 1940, Italy declared war on Britain and France when it seemed as if Germany was winning the war. In 1941, Italy invaded Greece against Hitler’s advice. On October 28, 1940, similar to Albania, Italy issued Greece and ultimatum, which was rejected

How did the Cold War affect the politics of Germany and Italy? The Cold War was the most important historic event in the 20th century after the Second World War, from 1945 till 1991 between two most powerful countries in that period – Soviet Union and USA. The Cold War invested a lot in world politics. What is the Cold War? This was a war for dominance in the world. In 1945 the USA was the only one country in the world that had the nuclear weapons. But in the 1949 USSR started to learn their nuclear

of power was rapid. He was known as “IL DUCE”, the Prime Minister of Italy and an Axis European political leader (World). In 1903, he became a communist and read Nietzche’s works as well as followed Marx’s ideologies (Rise). In 1914 he founded the newspaper “Popolo d'Italia” (Rise). And by 1919, Mussolini began to lead an extremely nationalist group (Quazen). He then declared himself as the dictator after King Victor Emmanuel III in 1922 (Quazen). In the year 1914, Mussolini joined a group of Italian

VATICAN CITY The Sistine Chapel … St. Peter’s Square … Saint Peter’s Basilica … The home of Pope Francis., What do all these famous places have in common? They are all in The Vatican City. Vatican City, an independent state within the city of Rome, is ruled by the Pope and is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. (Ruhl 1) (Blake 2) Vatican city, the smallest country, has the smallest population in the world. The Vatican stamps their own coins (Ruhl 3). The full name of

of the country is the State of Vatican City, and it is the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Vatican is usually referred to as a City State and often called “The Holy See”. It stands on Vatican Hill in northwestern Rome, Italy west of

(Heywood 2012: 199). In 1922 Mussolini managed to assume the post of Prime Minister, mostly by a show of force by his armed men the ‘Black Shirts’. The government in Italy was paralyzed and fear of a civil war by the King 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