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Life in Fascist Italy - Coggle Diagram
Life in Fascist Italy
cultural policies (including religion, police, cultural events, propaganda, the arts, cultural events)
All Italians were expected to obey Mussolini and his Fascist Party. Authority was enforced by the use of the Blackshirts – the nickname for the Fasci di Combattimenti.
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“Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.”
Italy did have a secret police under Mussolini. It was called the OVRA. It was formed in 1927 and was lead by Arturo Bocchini.
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Yet up to 1940 only ten people had been sentenced to death. Only 4000 people were arrested by the OVRA and sent to prison.
Prisons were set up on remote Mediterranean islands such as Ponza and Lipari. Condition for those sentenced to the prisons here were crude and many anti-Fascists simply left Italy for their own safety.
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Legal System
Acerbo Laws: if more than 25% is won in election, then they get 66% of the seats in parliment
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policies toward women
Battle of the Births
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Bachelors got taxed heavily (promoted marriage, thus children)
After getting a certain amount of children (14), mother was awarded and hailed (promoted population growth)
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The task of young girls was to get married and have children – lots of them. In 1927, Mussolini launched his Battle for Births.
Families were given a target of 5 children. Mothers who produced more were warmly received by the Fascist government.
Though the population grew as people were living longer due to better medical care, the birth rate actually went down between 1927 and 1934.
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