| Term | Definition |
|---|
| What is totalitarianism? | The system of running a country in which a dictator or a single party has total control of the lives of all its citizens. |
| What is democracy? | A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
| After what incident did Mussolini come to power? | WWI |
| What did Mussolini first do to try to gain power? | Gathered around him war veterans in a quest for political power. |
| What is facism? | A political system run by a dictator. |
| What is communism? | A political system that abolishes private ownership. |
| Why were the Italians angry at the Treaty of Versailles? | They went into the treaty negotiations wanting Dalmatia and Fiume and ended up leaving with neither. They didn't get land, but not what they wanted. |
| What did Mussolini do in 1922? | He persuaded the king of Italy to let him be prime minister after a march on Rome with his supporters. |
| Who were the Black Shirts? | Mussolini's private army. |
| What did Mussolini do in 1924 as preparation for the elections? | He made a law that would give the winner of the election at least 2/3 of the seats in the gov't regardless of the percentage of the votes they aquired. |
| What happened to socialist leader Matteotti after publicizing beatings that took place outside of some polling stations? | He was murdered by Black Shirts. |
| What happened when opposition parties withdrew from the legislature? | He declared them and their followers enemies of the state. |
| What did Mussolini do in 1925? | He appointed an all facist gov't that made Italy a single-party state. And made it so that only Facist-approved candidates could run in elections. |
| What happened in Italy in October 1935? | The Italians launched their first attack on Ethiopia (Abyssinia). |
| What was corporate state? | The type of state Mussolini established in which the economy was controlled by the government. |
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