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2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945

The Biennio Rosso and the Fascist Response

  • 4 things to know
  • Component 2

Overview

Recall questions on the Fasci di Combattimento and their 1919 programme, the Biennio Rosso factory occupations and Po Valley strikes, squadrismo and its backers, the elections of 1921, the founding of the PNF and the failed general strike.

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Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Key term

What was the Biennio Rosso?

Key term

How did squadristi force socialist councillors from office?

Key term

Why was an anti-Fascist coalition not formed in the early 1920s?

Process

What was the Biennio Rosso, and how did the Fascists fare in 1919?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    When and where did Mussolini found the Fasci di Combattimento?

    Model answer

    In Milan in March 1919

  2. 2

    What groups initially joined the Fasci di Combattimento?

    Model answer

    Nationalists, futurists, and disaffected socialists

  3. 3

    What demand regarding women's political rights appeared in the early Fascist programme of 1919?

    Model answer

    Votes for women

  4. 4

    What demand regarding working hours appeared in the early Fascist programme of 1919?

    Model answer

    An eight-hour working day

  5. 5

    What demand regarding taxation appeared in the early Fascist programme of 1919?

    Model answer

    A progressive tax on capital

  6. 6

    How did the Fascists perform in the 1919 elections, and what was Mussolini's response?

    Model answer

    They won no seats, leading Mussolini to shift the movement's ideology rightward

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