The Serbian-Croatian Cvetković-Maček government that came to power, distanced Yugoslavia's former allies of France and the United Kingdom, and moved closer to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the period of 1935 – 1941.

The Fascists managed to seize control of several post offices and trains in northern Italy while the Italian government, led by a left-wing coalition, was internally divided and unable to respond to the Fascist advances.

By 1943, after Italy faced multiple military failures, complete reliance and subordination of Italy to Germany, and Allied invasion of Italy, and corresponding international humiliation, Mussolini was removed as head of government and arrested by the order of King Victor Emmanuel III who proceeded to dismantle the Fascist state and declared Italy's switching of allegiance to the Allied side.

Fascist leaders who ruled countries were not always heads of state, but were heads of government, such as Benito Mussolini, who held power under the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III.

The Fascist government in Italy banned literature on birth control and increased penalties for abortion in 1926, declaring both crimes against the state.

" In November 1925, women were given restricted voting rights, juxtaposed with the eliminaton of opposition parties, which enabled the Fascist government to rule with dictatorial powers.

In an effort to increase birthrates, the Italian Fascist government gave financial incentives to women who raised large families, and initiated policies designed to reduce the number of women employed.

Italian Fascism called for women to be honoured as " reproducers of the nation ", and the Italian Fascist government held ritual ceremonies to honour women's role within the Italian nation.

The Italian Fascist government declared it illegal in 1931.

However, according to Patricia Knight, they did, with the Italian Fascist government coming to own the highest percentage of industries outside the Soviet Union.

Trying to handle the crisis, the Fascist government nationalized the holdings of large banks which had accrued significant industrial securities.

* 1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.

As in Italy, Fascism eventually took over government of the Republic, the Sammarinese Fascist Party causing the Socialist newspaper Nuovo Titano to cease publication.

The Fascist government had direct rule only over the Benadir territory Given the defeat of the Dervish movement in the early 1920s and the rise of fascism in Europe, on 10 July 1925, Mussolini gave the green light to De Vecchi to start the takeover of the north-eastern sultanates.

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* Benito Mussolini of the National Fascist Party became Prime Minister of Italy, shortly thereafter creating the world's first fascist government.

In that year, the Fascist government took control of the authorization of all textbooks, all secondary school teachers were required to take an oath of loyalty to Fascism, and children began to be taught that they owed the same loyalty to Fascism as they did to God.

The PPI won over 20 % of the votes in the 1919 and 1921 elections, but was declared illegal by the Fascist dictatorship in 1925 despite the presence of some Popolari in Benito Mussolini's first government.

What was enacted during two decades of Fascist government was quite contrary in substance to the demands of the manifesto.

During 21 years of Fascist government, not all manifesto pledges were achieved, and many were simply ignored ; forgotten by the system.

The dominion was formed in 1936 during Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's government in Italy with the defeat of Haile Selassie's Ethiopia in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Between 1924 and 1945, Benito Mussolini's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Italian language and culture, and worked to erase any traces of the existence of other nations on the territory of Italy.

In 1935 – 1936 Italy invaded and annexed Ethiopia and the Fascist government proclaimed the creation of the " Italian Empire ".

During World War II Thessaloniki was heavily bombarded by Fascist Italy ( with 232 people dead, 871 wounded and over 800 buildings damaged or destroyed in November 1940 alone ), and, the Italians having failed to succeed in their invasion of Greece, it fell to the forces of Nazi Germany on 8 April 1941 and remained under German occupation until 30 October 1944 when it was liberated by the Greek People's Liberation Army.

Marinetti sought to make Futurism the official state art of Fascist Italy but failed to do so.

The Italian politicians failed to perceive the positive elements of the peace treaties and stressed the negative ones, and so the myth of the " mutilated victory " spread, fueling the Fascist propaganda and helping Benito Mussolini seize power.

Most importantly for Benito Mussolini, it was another opportunity to stage Fascist propaganda as the ' Duce ' was portrayed as an elder statesman and a keeper of the peace ( after the failed Anschluss of 1934 ).

Although Starace was successful in increasing party membership, he failed in the later years of his tenure as Secretary to reorganize the Italian Fascist Youth Organization ( Opera Nazionale Balilla ) along the lines of the Hitler Youth ( Hitler-Jugend ).

All halfhearted attempts to deconstruct and remove this Fascist era road ( Via dei Fori Imperiali ) have failed for the past 45 years.

By contrast, Mason argued that there was much to learn by comparing Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in order to produce a theory of generic fascism.

When he became undesirable to Mussolini's Fascist regime, his father sent him to the United States to learn the roots of American industrial power.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

Bowie was quoted in Stockholm as saying that " Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader ", and was detained by customs on the Russian / Polish border for possessing Nazi paraphernalia.

Hoxha was dismissed from his teaching post following the 1939 Italian invasion for refusing to join the Albanian Fascist Party.

There were also smaller factions within the Italian Fascist movement, such as the clerical Fascists, who sought to shift Italian Fascism from its anti-Catholic roots to accepting Catholicism.

D ' Annunzio and Fascist Alceste De Ambris developed the quasi-fascist Italian Regency of Carnaro, a city-state in Fiume, from 1919 to 1920.

Beginning in 1922, Fascist paramilitaries escalated their strategy from one of attacking socialist offices and homes of socialist leadership figures to one of violent occupation of cities.

In Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany both pursued territorial expansionist and interventionist foreign policy agendas from the 1930s through the 1940s culminating in World War II.

Prior to rising to power, from 1939 to 1941, Peron had developed a deep admiration of Italian Fascism and modelled his economic policies on Italian Fascist economic policies.

Both sides received foreign military aid: the Nationalists from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Portugal, while the Republic was supported by organised far-left volunteers in the International Brigades.

Venizelos meanwhile, in exile, urged an end to the conflict over the monarchy in view of the threat to Greece from the rise of Fascist Italy.

It was soon adopted by the Italian Fascist party and from them the Nazi party.

The Allied troops entered Alcamo without opposition on July 21, 1943, freeing the city from Fascist and German forces.

Culturally and philosophically, Mussolini isolated the bourgeoisie from Italian society by portraying them as social parasites upon the Fascist Italian State and “ The People ”; as a social class who drained the human potential of Italian society, in general, and of the working class, in particular ; as exploiters who victimized the Italian nation with an approach to life characterised by hedonism and materialism.

By 1928, practically the only check on Mussolini's power was the King's right to dismiss him from office — though that right could only be exercised on the advice of the Fascist Grand Council, a body that could only be convened by Mussolini.

In 1938, Victor Emanuel kept a public silence when the Fascist government, under pressure from Nazi Germany, issued racial purity laws.

After Mussolini received a vote of no confidence from the Fascist Grand Council on 24 July, Victor Emmanuel dismissed him from office, relinquished the Ethiopian and Albanian crowns, and appointed Pietro Badoglio as prime minister.

Gorky's return from Fascist Italy was a major propaganda victory for the Soviets.

The Soviet press portrayed the country as threatened from within by Fascist spies.

Paul Erdős, the eccentric and extremely prolific Hungarian-born mathematician, referred to the notion of deus deceptor in a humorous context when he called God " the Supreme Fascist ", who deliberately hid things from people, ranging from socks and passports to the most elegant of mathematical proofs.

" As personification, as goddess or as symbol, the name Roma stretches from classical Greece to Mussolini's Fascist propaganda ... Roma has been seen as a goddess, a whore, a near-saint, and as the symbol of civilization itself.