INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
FASCISM IN ITALY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Spoke to the offenders
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Used violence to stop striking workers and attacked communists
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Ran for political office to create new laws
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Blackshirts were established as the Squadrismo in 1919 and consisted of many disgruntled former soldiers. It was given the task of leading fights against their bitter enemies – the Socialists. They may have numbered 200, 000 by the time of Mussolini’s March on Rome from 27 to 29 October 1922.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mussolini, surrounded by supporters, enters Rome in October 1922. Days earlier, Mussolini had directed his movement’s paramilitary wing-known as the Blackshirts-to overthrow the government.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1919, Mussolini organized his fascist movement in the northern city of Milan. He formed squads of street fighters who wore black shirts. His “Blackshirts” beat up socialists and communists and threw them out of local governments. The communist revolution in Russia had taken place only two years earlier.
Detailed explanation-4: -Blackshirt, Italian Camicia Nera, plural Camicie Nere, member of any of the armed squads of Italian Fascists under Benito Mussolini, who wore black shirts as part of their uniform.