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Life in Fascist Italy - Coggle Diagram
Life in Fascist Italy
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policies toward women
• “The task of young girls was to get married and have children – lots of them. In 1927, Mussolini launched his Battle for Births”.
• “Women were encouraged to have children and the more children brought better tax privileges – an idea Hitler was to build on. Large families got better tax benefits but bachelors were hit by high taxation”.
• “Families were given a target of 5 children. Mothers who produced more were warmly received by the Fascist government. In 1933, Mussolini met 93 mothers at the Palazzo Venezia who had produced over 1300 children”
cultural policies (including religion, police, cultural events, propaganda, the arts, cultural events)
• Religion
o Mussolini “only gained what could be described as dictatorial powers after the Lateran Treaty whereby he could guarantee loyalty from those Catholics who may well have not been supporters of the fascist state in Italy”.
o “To get support from the Roman Catholic Church, religious education was made compulsory in all elementary schools”.
• Propaganda
o “In November 1926, all rival political parties and opposition newspapers were banned in Italy”.
• Police
o “In 1927, a secret police force was set up called the OVRA and it was lead by Arturo Bocchini. The death penalty was reintroduced for “serious political offences”. By 1940, the OVRA had arrested 4000 suspects but only 10 people from 1927 to 1940 were ever sentenced to death”
o “Authority was enforced by the use of the Blackshirts – the nickname for the Fasci di Combattimenti. Those men in this unit were usually ex-soldiers and it was their job to bring into line those who opposed Mussolini”.
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