Personal Aims and Propaganda Flashcards
His main goals were to maintain and increase his personal rule, what were the two ways he hoped to do this?
- Encouraging a cult of personality
- Seeking a constructive working relationship with powerful interest groups.
Explain what the Cult of Personality was and what was is intent?
- It was intended to build popular support for the dictator.
- Propaganda was used in large volume to defer potential opponents and present Mussolini as a powerful leader.
What were the 7 main areas in which propaganda was developed?
- Newspapers
- Radio
- Films
- Posters
- Mass Activities and Sport
- Art
- Ancient Rome
What did Tannenbaum describe the development of propaganda as being?
- “In some ways the reign of journalists” and “amateurish”.
When was the Ministry of Popular Culture created?
- 1937
Give three points in which newspapers helped Mussolini establish his position?
- 1926 all political party papers were surprised.
- Reporting of most crimes, disasters and unemployment were forbidden.
- Underground anti-Fascist papers still continued to circulate.
Give three points regarding radio’s that allowed propaganda to develop?
- From 1924, the radio network was state run.
- In 1927 there were 40,000 units whereas in 1938 there were 1,000,000
- Government supplied rural agency (EER) to increase the span of influence.
When discussing mass activities and sport, give two factors that helped propaganda develop?
- Organised a series of mass parades to indicate discipline and collective identity to impress observers.
- The national football team received a telegram saying “Win or Die” before the 1938 World Cup Final.
How was Mussolini able to transform society by recreating Ancient Rome?
- State funding was poured into archaeological projects such as the Tomb of the Emperor Augustus.
- The concept of recreating the Italian Empire was one of Mussolini’s foreign aims, reaching its height in the 1930’s.
