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    Mussolini and the Children of Italy

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    This 7 page report discusses Benito Mussolini and his understanding that Fascism depended on youthful energy and enthusiasm to both bring Mussolini to power as well that power and the predominance of Fascism throughout Italy. He influenced virtually every aspect of an Italian child’s life as he changed the educational system, mounted an extreme propaganda effort, and provided youth organizations that were designed to create enthusiastic and devoted Fascist Italians. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

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    extreme propaganda effort, and provided youth organizations that were designed to create enthusiastic and devoted Fascist Italians. Bibliography lists 7 sources. BWmusso.rtf  Mussolini and the Children of Italy By: C.B. Rodgers - October 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly!  Introduction Fascism in Italy in the pre-World War II decades of the 20th century did not have a well-defined ideology but was, nonetheless, profoundly anti-capitalist and anti-liberal. The conditions after  World War I allowed a small group of Fascists to rise to power through violence, the use and violation of the democratic institutions, relations with the monarch and the Catholic  Church, and intense indoctrination and training. Both women and children under Italian Fascism had two major roles, loyalty to Mussolini and loyalty to husband/father and family. When Benito  Mussolini became the head of the Italian government in 1922, he spoke of restoring Italian power and prestige, reviving the economy, increasing productivity, ending harmful government controls and furthering law  and order. Mussolini was committed to an ambitious modernization program: draining swamps, developing hydroelectricity and improving the railways. His ideas of modernization did not apply to the  role of women in Italian society. Population growth was a sign of national strength, thus Italy need to prove its "strength." Mussolini and his government officials also believed that women  should not work outside of their homes and in the early 1920s were immediately dismissed from employment of all types, a contributing factor in the larger economic depression of the  1930s. They were to produce babies to prove the nations strength and provide a never-ending supply of future soldiers. The fasces, bundles of sticks tied together, were a symbol of 

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