Movement Towards A New World — Social Science STD 9 — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9Social ScienceMovement Towards A New World4 Marks
Question
Write a note on Fascism in Italy.
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Answer
Fascism in Italy:
At the end of the First World War, Italy incurred a massive expenditure of $12$ billion dollars and lost $6$ lakh soldiers.
In spite of the huge loss and contribution that Italy gave in the war, the other winning nations took over the territories of their choice and ignored Italy.
As a result, Italy got angry and frustrated.
Italians felt very hurt and their nationalistic feelings were haken. They held their government responsible for not getting anything at the end of the war inspite of losing so much money and soldiers, Hence, they became eager to take revenge about this national humiliation.
In order to free Italy from such a desperate situation, Benito Mussolini established the Fascist Party in Italy.
He adopted ‘a bundle of sticks and axe’ which was in fact a symbol of supremacy of the Roman Emperors as the symbol of his party.
The word ‘Fascism’ has evolved from Italian word ‘facege’ which means absolute control of the state on everything.
Mussolini followed the principle of ‘One party, One leader’.
He gave military training to his party volunteers. The volunteers wore black uniform. ‘
After coming to power, Mussolini capture Rhodes and Dodecanese islands from Turkey.
He also won Albania, Abyssinia and Fume port in $1924.$
After these victories, Mussolini broke all the ties with the League of Nations.
It then signed a combined treaty with Germany and Tokyo. This treaty was a military alliance between the three countries and it was called Tripartite Pact or say ‘Roma-Berlin-Tokyo’Axis.
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