Mussolini's Fascist Policies

Question 1

What did Mussolini do to solve high unemployment?

Answer 1

He began massive public projects such as building Autostrada, draining the Pontine Marshes and encouraging grain production

Question 2

How did Mussolini win over the Italian people?

Answer 2

The OVRA and Black Shirts used intimidation and violence against opposition, the Fascists used propaganda and young people were targets of indoctrination

Question 3

What did the Lateran Treaty do?

Answer 3

Formed good relations with the Vatican by creating the Vatican State and acknowledging Catholicism as the state religion

Question 4

What did Mussolini’s foreign policy aim to do?

Answer 4

Make Italy a great international power again

Question 5

What place did Mussolini gain in 1925?

Answer 5

Fiume, Yugoslavia, an area whose ownership is was in dispute since the Treaty of Versailles

Question 6

Where did Mussolini invade in 1935 and why?

Answer 6

Abyssinia seeking revenge for the 1896 defeat of the Italians by the Africans

Question 7

Who did Mussolini provide troops and support for?

Answer 7

General Franco in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939