why did Mussolini do to solve the problems of unemployment
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why did Mussolini do to solve the problems of unemployment
Fascism was born out of Italy’s disappointment with the Versailles settlement, and Mussolini promised to restore Italy’s fortunes by reviving the glories of ancient Rome and making Italy a great power, or at least mistress of ‘Mare Nostrum’ – the Mediterranean. He gained some initial successes against the Greeks in 1923, bombarding Corfu and winning an apology and an indemnity with the help of the French and the machinery of the League of Nations. This was followed by the seizure of Fiume. He was the only contemporary to stand up to Hitler (over Austria in 1934) and thereby increased his respectability as a worthy partner in the Stresa Front of 1935. Then, needing diversion from sluggish progress at home, he set upon Abyssinia to redeem the national reputation tarnished at Adowa in 1896 and join the ranks of the imperial powers. The military problem presented by the Abyssinians was solved in a mere seven months, but the ruthless manner in which the Italians imposed themselves on the poorly armed Abyssinians, using tanks and chemical weapons, turned popular opinion against Mussolini. An Anglo-French effort to appease Mussolini via the secret Hoare Laval Pact had to be abandoned when it was revealed in the press. Having lost his Stresa friends Mussolini was left to make common cause with the Hitler, Franco and the Japanese; he was then sucked into Hitler’s war which cruelly exposed the weakness and inefficiency of the Italian forces on which he had had staked his reputation. If Italy’s lack of prestige was indeed a problem, Mussolini in the end compounded it rather than solving it.
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Mussolini established law and order and steps were taken to improve the economic conditions of the people snd solve the problem of unemployment.