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By the late 1930s, Mussolini concluded that Britain and France were declining powers, and that Germany and Italy, due to their demographic strength, were destined to rule Europe. [129] He believed that the declining birth rates in France were "absolutely horrifying" and that the British Empire was doomed because one-quarter of the British ...
The United States and Fascist Italy: The Rise of American Finance in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Overy, Richard. The Road to War (2009) pp 191–244 for 1930s. OL 28444279M; Rodrigo, Javier. Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Routledge, 2021). Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini (Faber & Faber ...
Larsen, Stein Ugelvik, ed. Fascism outside Europe: the European impulse against domestic conditions in the diffusion of global fascism (East European Monographs, 2001). Mises, Ludwig von. 1944. Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Grove City: Libertarian Press. Morgan, Philip. Fascism in Europe, 1919–1945 (2003).
In case of some countries the lifetime of a fascistoid party did not overlap with reasonably free general elections, though the party might have fared well in other elections, e.g. in local elections in Bulgaria of 1934 Народно социално движение gained 12% of the votes, in local elections of Estonia in 1934 Eesti ...
COVID-19 pandemic hits Italy among the first countries in Europe. COVID-19 virus originated in China, spreads in Italy without being clearly detected in the winter of 2019. 2020 March In March 2020, the government imposed a national quarantine as a measure to limit the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
Amongst Mussolini's aims were that Italy had to become the dominant power in the Mediterranean that would be able to challenge France or Britain, as well as attain access to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. [35] Mussolini alleged that Italy required uncontested access to the world's oceans and shipping lanes to ensure its national sovereignty. [36]
Italy had declared war on the United Kingdom and France on June 10, 1940, as Mussolini implemented the Pact of Steel and tried to use the German alliance to win advantages for Italy. [4] Prior to Hitler's declaration of war against America there was little, if any, doubt that Italy would once again "follow Germany's lead." [5]
On 24 October 1922, Mussolini declared in front of 60,000 militants at a Fascist rally in Naples: "Our program is simple: we want to rule Italy." [ 16 ] On the following day, the Quadrumvirs , Emilio De Bono , Italo Balbo , Michele Bianchi and Cesare Maria de Vecchi , were appointed by Mussolini at the head of the march, while he went to Milan .