... and landowners feared for their property. Small shopkeepers and white-collar workers-social groups that did not think the working-class movement supported their interests-found themselves alienated by business elites on the one hand and ... decadent peoples. Mussolini began to rebuild Italy in accordance with these principles. The first step was to change electoral laws so they granted his party solid parliamentary majorities and to intimidate the opposition. He then ... and Hitler's military expansionism spread the conflict between 10 fascism and antifascism to international relations ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in society under this new totalitarian regime. Many aspects of Italians' lives were controlled and censored. The Rivoluzione Fascista aimed to change the way people thought, their behaviour, and even the way they dress. The aim therefore was to eliminate any trace of the individual and their fundamental civil rights such ... to the training of citizens devoted to the fatherland and to the fascist regime. Through the novels of Giorgio Bassani and Ignazio Silone we find out how the Italian people endured this new fascist regime of Mussolini's. The Jews of Ferrara on one hand and the cafoni...

• Word Count: 2562
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . The prevailing intellectual state in the mid to late nineteenth century was one of change. New ideas were brought to the fore by scientists and expounded upon by philosophers ... Europe had been exposed to new ideas, made credible through scientific evidence, and began to think differently about themselves and about their nations. War was no longer the evil result of the ... We can pursue this policy with England or without England. With England means in peace; without England means "through war. This statement, made by the moderate historian and publicist Hans Delbruck in 1899 in hi...

• Word Count: 5871
• Approx Pages: 23
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate