History for the Classical Child

His ~ story

From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Fascism in Italy

Review the history lesson in chapter twenty-four about Egypt.

Read the second part of the same lesson about Italy.  Answer the following questions:

1) Give two reasons why the British and French prime ministers distrusted Italy.
2) What land did Vittorio Orlando fail to get for Italy?
3) What did Vittorio Orlando have to do when he returned home to Italy?
4) What happened to Umberto I, the king who had tried to put Italy under martial law?
5) Who inheritedt the throne after Umberto I?
6) How many prime ministers served in the three years after Orlando resigned?
7) In Mussolini's opinion, what was the most important thing for any country?
8) What was more important, individual citizens or the state?
9) Why did Italians like Mussolini's ideas?
10) What were the two nicknames for Mussolini's followers?
11) What did Mussolini plan for his army to do if he was not given the power to run Italy?
12) Why did Victor Emmanuel III agree to make Mussolini the prime minister?
13) Did Mussolini behave like a prime minister?
14) Why did he want to recapture land around the Mediterranean Sea?

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