Mussolini's Domestic Policies

What is the Matteoti crisis?

• political confrontation between liberals and the Fascist government of Italy after the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, a Socialist opposition deputy, by Fascist thugs in June 1922.
• political confrontation between liberals and the Fascist government of Italy after the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, a Socialist opposition deputy, by Fascist thugs in June 1924.

Who were the blackshirts?

• Fascist Church

• Fascist After Work Club

• Fascist Youth Organisation

• Fascist Militia, also known as Squadristi

What was the Aventine secession?

• Fascist military uprising

• Withdrawal of the Italian Socialist Party from the Italian government

• Art movement in Italy

• Military plan to invade Abyssinia

What year did the Acerbo law came to power

• 1926

• 1931

• 1923

• 1929

What did the Acerbo law do?

• Gave 2/3 majority in parliament to a party with more than 20% of a vote

• Gave 3/4 majority in parliament to a party with more than 35% of a vote

• Gave 4/5 majority in parliament to a party with more than 40% of a vote

• Gave 2/3 majority in parliament to a party with more than 25% of a vote

Attempt to make Italy self-sufficient was called...?

• Autarky

• Antarctic

• Austerity

• Posterity

Battle for Land in 1928 attempted to...?

• Increase population of Italy

• Increase grain production

• Increase arable land in Italy by draining marshland.

• Increase international prestige of Italy

Battle for Birth aimed to increase Italian population ...?

• from 37mill to 45mill. It succeeded.

• from 37mill to 60mill. It succeeded.

• from 37mill to 45mill. It failed.

• from 37mill to 60mill. It failed.

This domestic policy caused the export of olive oil, wine and livestock to fall.

• Battle for Grain

• Battle for Olives

• Battle for Land

• Mussolini Law

The Battle for Lira was launched in...?

• 1920

• 1924

• 1926

• 1935