Fascist Italy

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authoritarian regime historical country one-party state totalitarian state

Fascist Italy was the authoritarian, nationalist regime led by Benito Mussolini from the early 1920s to 1943, known for its totalitarian politics, imperial ambitions, and central role in the Axis powers during World War II.

Aliases (10)

Italian Fascism ×13
Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini ×10
Co-belligerent Italy ×2
Mussolini government ×2
Fascist Italy (for Nationalist side) ×1
Fascist period in Italy ×1
Fascist regime of Italy ×1
Italian Fascist regime ×1
Kingdom of Italy under Benito Mussolini ×1
fascist Italy ×1

Statements (88)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	authoritarian regime → historical country → one-party state → totalitarian state →
alliance	Axis powers → Pact of Steel →
alliedWith	Imperial Japan → Nazi Germany →
capital	Rome →
claimedTitle	Italian Empire →
collapsedBecauseOf	loss of support from the king → military defeats in World War II →
colonialPossession	Dodecanese Islands → Italian East Africa → Italian Eritrea → Italian Ethiopia → Italian Libya → Italian Somaliland →
continent	Europe →
country	Kingdom of Italy →
currency	Italian lira →
demographicPolicy	Battle for Births → pro-natalist policies →
discriminatedAgainst	Italian Jews → Slavic minorities →
economicCampaign	Battle for Grain → Battle for Land →
economicSystem	state-directed corporatist economy →
educationPolicy	curriculum fascistization →
endEvent	Allied invasion of Italy → Grand Council of Fascism vote of no confidence → fall of Mussolini →
endTime	1943 →
enemyDuringWorldWarII	France → Soviet Union → United Kingdom → United States →
foreignPolicyGoal	control of the Mediterranean → imperial expansion →
governmentType	one-party fascist dictatorship →
headOfGovernmentTitle	Duce →
headOfState	Victor Emmanuel III →
ideology	Italian Fascism → anti-communism → authoritarianism → corporatism → militarism → ultranationalism →
introducedLaw	racial laws of 1938 →
introducedPolicy	Lateran Treaty with the Holy See → censorship → corporate state → cult of personality around Mussolini → one-party rule → secret police repression → youth indoctrination →
leader	Benito Mussolini →
locatedIn	Mediterranean region →
mediaControl	press censorship → state radio propaganda →
monarch	Victor Emmanuel III →
officialLanguage	Italian →
paramilitaryWing	Blackshirts → Squadristi →
participatedIn	Greco-Italian War → Invasion of Albania → Second Italo-Ethiopian War → Spanish Civil War → World War II →
policeStateFeature	internal exile for dissidents →
propagandaOrgan	Ministry of Popular Culture →
propagatedMyth	revival of the Roman Empire →
rulingParty	National Fascist Party → Partito Nazionale Fascista →
secretPolice	OVRA →
signedTreaty	Lateran Treaty →
signedTreatyWith	Holy See →
startEvent	March on Rome → Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy →
startTime	1922 →
succeededBy	Italian Social Republic in German-occupied northern Italy → Kingdom of Italy under Badoglio government in the south →
suppressed	political opposition → trade unions independent of the regime →
usedSymbol	Roman imperial imagery → fasces →
yearOfLateranTreaty	1929 →
youthOrganization	Opera Nazionale Balilla →

Referenced by (87)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ante Pavelić → Fumimaro Konoe → Hungarian revisionism → Independent State of Croatia → Indian National Army → NDH → Third Reich →	alliedWith
Altiero Spinelli ("Italian Fascism") → EAM (National Liberation Front) → National Liberation Front (EAM) → Polish forces → Sandro Pertini ("Italian Fascism") →	opposedTo
Azad Hind Government → Catalonia Offensive → Flechas Azules Division → Nationalist offensive of November 1936 → Siege of Madrid ("Fascist Italy (for Nationalist side)") →	supportedBy
Acerbo Law ("Mussolini government") → Battle for Births ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") → Italian Racial Laws ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") → Littorio Division ("Kingdom of Italy under Benito Mussolini") →	government
Free France → Greek People’s Liberation Army → Yugoslav Partisans →	opposedBy
Azad Hind Government → Manchukuo → NDH →	recognizedBy
Italian Blackshirt divisions → Luigi Frusci →	allegiance
Italy (1943–1945, co-belligerent with Allies) ("Co-belligerent Italy") → Southern Kingdom ("Co-belligerent Italy") →	alsoKnownAs
Giovinezza ("Italian Fascism") → Rocca delle Caminate ("Italian Fascism") →	associatedWith
Bombing of Guernica → Iraq campaign (1941) →	belligerent
Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy → Senate of the Kingdom of Italy →	historicalEra
Fascist Italy ("Italian Fascism") → Italian East Africa ("Italian Fascism") →	ideology
Altiero Spinelli ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") → Antonio Gramsci ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") →	imprisonedBy
La mia vita → The Doctrine of Fascism ("Italian Fascism") →	mainSubject
New Zealand forces → Polish Armed Forces in the West →	opponent
Giacomo Matteotti ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") → Italkim →	persecutedBy
Mussolini: An Intimate Biography ("Italian Fascism") → Second Italo-Ethiopian War ("Italian Fascism") →	relatedTo
Italian invasion of Albania →	aggressor
Domobranstvo →	alignedWith
Nazi Germany →	ally
First Marshal of the Empire →	appliesToJurisdiction
First Vienna Award →	arbitratingPower
Luigi Frusci ("Mussolini government") →	associatedWithRegime
Quebec Conference →	axisOpponents
Croatian Air Force (WWII) →	collaboratedWith
Opera Nazionale Balilla ("Fascist regime of Italy") →	controlledBy
Anti-Comintern Pact →	countrySignatory
Alfredo Guzzoni →	era
Corpo Truppe Volontarie ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") →	governmentSponsor
Predappio →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Il Duce, mio padre →	historicalContext
Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari →	historicallyLinkedTo
Aviazione Legionaria →	ideologicalAlignment
First Vienna Award →	imposedBy
World War II forced migrations →	involvesActor
Pope Pius XI ("Italian Fascism") →	issuedEncyclicalOn
Chamberlain government →	keyInternationalActor
Allied forces →	mainEnemy
Government Code and Cypher School →	mainOpponent
Roberto Farinacci ("Italian Fascism") →	movement
NDH →	occupyingPower
OVRA →	operatedIn
Ministry of Popular Culture →	operatedInPoliticalContext
Second Spanish Republic →	opponentSupporters
Grand Council of Fascism ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") →	partOf
coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy →	period
Claretta Petacci ("Italian Fascism") →	politicalContext
Benito Mussolini ("Italian Fascism") →	politicalIdeology
Giovinezza →	politicalSymbolOf
Southern Kingdom ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") →	precededBy
Lateran Treaty ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") →	signedUnderGovernment
Ministry of Popular Culture ("Italian Fascist regime") →	subordinateTo
Il Popolo d'Italia ("Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini") →	supported
La mia vita ("Fascist period in Italy") →	timePeriodCovered
Littorio Division ("fascist Italy") →	usedBy