Mussolini Seizes Dictatorial Powers in Italy
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Dictatorships, Dictators, Tyrants, Human Rights, Fascism, Fascists
- Curriculum: Italian History, 20th & 21st Century European History
- Geographical Location: Italy
- Date: 1925-1926
Article abstract: Benito Mussolini’s seizure of power in the 1920’s led to a dictatorship that destroyed political freedom in Italy and threatened international peace and stability during the 1930’s.
Summary of Event
Italy made slow but notable progress in human rights during the first decades of the twentieth century. Under a constitutional monarchy, Italians shaped a limited parliamentary democracy similar to those of other Western European nations. By the early 1900’s, the working class had won the right to organize and strike. Socialist labor...
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