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The big “red scare” of 1919-1920 resulted in a nationwide crusade against left-wingers whose Americanism was suspect and was a godsend to conservative businesspeople, who used it to break the backs of the fledgling unions. “Red Scare” was important, because it led to violations of individual’s rights. Sacco and Vanzetti Case Nicola Sacco, a shoe-factory worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler, were convicted in 1921 of the murder of a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard. The jury and…

Benito Mussolini, nicknamed Il Duce was best known as the fascist dictator of Italy after the First World War. Being the prime minister, Mussolini expected to bring his country into excellence and, majeure. However, as history unfolded, it became clear that he had quite a different perception and perspective on how to achieve national greatness , and in his eyes it began with total obedience and devotion to the nation’s leader-himself. Mussolini had many ideologies, and wasn’t afraid to use…

The Great Dictator made in 1940, written, produced, and directed, by Charlie Chaplin: was at the time a controversial film because it exposed Nazism and anti-Semitism with humor. Chaplin began his first full-dialogue film after a decade that the rest of the film industry had accepted talking pictures. Chaplin’s film “The Great Dictator”, was ahead of its time because no one could interpret the horrors happening in Germany throughout WWII. In the film, the main subject being Adolf Hitler and the…

World War I was a war unlike the world had ever seen before, and ushered in twenty-first century warfare. Its effects were devastating economically, militarily, and in terms of property, but also in terms of the harm it caused in the national pride of the citizens of nations that soon turned to fascist ideology, such as Germany and Italy. The consequences set forth in the Treaty of Versailles coupled with the nationalist sentiments rising in Europe since the nineteenth century led to a rise in…

Matteo Paoli WWI Assessment My topic is about Vittorio Orlando. Orlando was born in 1860 in Palermo, Sicily. Well educated, he became a professor of law and in 1916, and is also renowned for his 100+ writings on legal and judicial issues. He entered government as Minister of Justice. During the height of the Caporetto disaster, he was appointed Prime Minister. However, more favorably, his wartime leadership ended in triumph with the Italian victory at Vittorio Veneto in 1917. In 1917 he was an…

In 1922 in Italy after the March of Rome, the monarchy, the church, the political elite and the voters felt Benito Mussolini and his Fascist regime would provide the political and financial stability that the country of Italy needed. Mussolini came to power in 1922 during Italy’s time of corruption, economic depression and labor disputes . He did not come in as a savior but more or so a dictator. Mussolini invented the word Fascism and introduced it as a political party to Italy, and it…

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an italian dictator but originally a revolutionary socialist who later became prime minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. After the leader of italy at the time gave mussolini permission to rule italy thinking that mussolini was going to fix a number of italy’s problems ranging from the bad economy to the lose of nationalism overall rose to power as prime minister after world war one. Benito mussolini was also the leader and creator of the fascist party which…

With the Fascist party repressed and World War II over, Italy was ready to establish a new political movement. In 1943 The Christian Democratic party or the DC a conservative group was founded. Although the Mafia had a long history of fighting over power with the government, especially during Mussolini’s rule, the relationship between the DC and mafia would be much more unified. When the DC was founded, Don Calo, known as one of the most influential mafia bosses of Sicily was also making his…

Mussolini used violence as a main tactic to help promote his political viewpoint of fascism. Through illegal violence, rather than elections, Fascists controlled government administration and destroyed the offices, newspapers, and cultural and social organizations of the Socialists, trade unions, and peasant leagues (Lyttelton). Socialists had a difficult time reorganizing because of the repeated violence toward local leaders. Large demonstrations, assisted by the police and higher classes, were…

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were both dictators that rose to power after World War I. Both dictators were extremely unhappy with Treaty of Versailles. Mussolini wasn’t happy with it because Italy did not get the land they were promised and Hitler wasn’t happy with it because he thought it was way too harsh. They both rose to power during their countries Great Depression and were able to get their country out of the Great Depression by strengthening their military. They both were able to…