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Fascist Italy (Italian: Italia Fascista) is a term which is used in historiography to describe the Kingdom of Italy when it was governed by the National Fascist Party from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as prime minister and dictator.
Fascist Italy reflected the belief of most Italians that homosexuality was wrong. Instead of the traditional Catholic teaching that it was a sin, a new approach was taken, based on the contemporary psychoanalysis, that it was a social disease. [77] Fascist Italy pursued an aggressive campaign to reduce prostitution of young women. [77]
Map of Great Italy according to the 1940 fascist project in case Italy had won the Second World War (the orange line delimits "Metropolitan Italy", the green line the borders of the enlarged "Italian Empire") Imperialism, colonialism and irredentism played an important role in the foreign policy of Fascist Italy.
Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime and the War of 1940–43. Port Chester, NY: Cambridge University Press. Knox, Macgregor. Mussolini Unleashed 1939-1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War (Cambridge UP, 1982). Mackenzie, Compton (1951). Eastern Epic: September 1939 – March 1943 Defence. Vol. I.
Fascist: Mussolini led the fascists who opposed and engaged in violence with international leftists who were gaining prominence in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Arditi del Popolo : Guido Picelli was the deputy of a coalition formed in 1921 between various anti-fascist groups including Malatesta's anarchists and Gramsci's communists, among ...
Gat, Moshe. "The Soviet Factor in British Policy towards Italy, 1943–1945", Historian (1988) 50#4 pp 535–557; Knox, MacGregor. Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (2000) Mack Smith, Denis. Modern Italy: A Political History (1997) online Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
Arditi del Popolo was a militant anti-fascist group founded in 1921 in Italy. The Italian Resistance has its roots in anti-fascism, which progressively developed in the period from the mid-1920s, when weak forms of opposition to the fascist regime already existed, until the beginning of World War II.
Across Italy, men and women went outside and chiseled away the Fascist emblems and removed propaganda posters from the buildings. In Rome, the government detained high-ranking Fascists in Forte Boccea , Rome's military jail at the time. [ 155 ]