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Describe the main stages by which Fascism developed into an effective political movement between its foundation in March 1919 and the march on Rome in October 1922.
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Describe the main stages by which Fascism developed into an effective political movement between its foundation in March 1919 and the march on Rome in October 1922. When Benito Mussolini founded the Fascist movement in 1919, its aims were to nationalise Italy completely. They were opposed to republicanism and believed in a monarchy, as well as being opposed to clericalism (the Catholic Church). Most of all the Fascist movement desired Italian greatness. In 1922, when the Fascist movement finally came to power, some of its main views had changed, but one remained the same, and that was its desire for Italian greatness. The development from the small party in 1919 to a huge party in 1922 in control of Italy was a relatively quick one, involving violence and radical changes in policy, as the party shifted from the left of the ideological spectrum to the right. The Fascist movement was founded in...
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