How did Mussolini change Italy?

Answer 1

After all the deaths and chaos in World War 1, Italy was in complete disarray. Benito Mussolini came along, claimed he could reshape Italy into its former glory, then created a horrific fascist regime.

Answer 2

Im sorry to tell u but he made it worse. Actually, he was quite well liked and the economy improved until he got Italy involved in WWII. His 'claim to fame' was that he made the railroads run on time.

Answer 3

Well all in all yes. Yes fascist economics improved the Italian economy. Fascist economics aren't really radical at all as many might think. Mussolini aligned himself with industrial interest and forged alliances with Italian capitalist. Mussolini had no real economic plan,but reacted to changing situations. Mussolini's economic goals were simple,1 modernize Italy's backward economy,2 remedy Italy's lack of Natural Resources. Making a alliance of industrialist,workers and the state, Pro-corporatism all in all. First hand Mussolini reformed the highly abused tax system, dis-oped of inefficient state owned industry, cut government costs, and introduced tariffs to protect the new industries. Development available domestic resources, and aggressive commercial policies searching aggressively for raw material trade deals and to solve Italy's resources problem committed strategic colonization,Libya and Ethiopia. Life insurance was shifted to private enterprise. For his first years in power from 1922-1926 he adapted a liberal economic policy,however the liar declined and the liberal policy's dropped. From 1927 on wards Mussolini adapted Italy into a corporation state. Massive work programs to gain popularity, massive construction of roads, including in the countryside. Also, drained massive swamps and confuted them into roads and railroads. Italy's economy improved slowly overtime and by the great depression came in 1929 Italy fared off more than any industrialized nation. Italy's massive industrialization and to bring capitalism into fascist ideology paved the way by the 1930's to a spike in the Italian economy. Mussolini became admired throughout the world for Italy dodging the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930's. Admired by men from Churchill, Roosevelt, and Hitler. His intense nationalism, declaring roman Catholicism as Italy's official religion and the Independence of Vatican city, united the Italian people behind him, even much of Italy's far left came to respect him to,mostly because of his socialist upbringing in his youth. Italy's baby boom of the 1920's,1930's and 1940's was the pure responsibility of Mussolini's fertility program. By the mid 1930's more of the Italian economy was invested into the Armed Forces. Though, Italy suffered a economic boycott after his invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, except for Germany,Islamic nations,other poorer European nations who couldn't afford not to do business with Italy. So, Mussolini just incorporated capitalism into fascist ideology, and just his own spin on it.

Answer 4

Mussolini began to improve the economy of Italy in several ways, not all of which can be considered proper when comparing Italy to the Western democracies. Mussolini's actions are subject to criticism, however, in light of Italy's terrible economy, most Italians gave him the support he wanted without forcing him to build a large number of concentration camps that accompanied the totalitarian states the Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany in the 1930's.Mussolini's brand of fascism was a true Dictatorship and it ended the factious political party system he believed was needed to advance the economic prospects of Italy, Clearly he was building a cult of personality and an undemocratic state.

His dictatorial policies ended disputes between labor and capital, yet avoided what many Western European nations considered to be the radical and menacing a lesser evil when compared to Lenin and Stalin.

Mussolini's "accomplishments" of modernization included:

* Vast improvements in hydroelectricity;

* Draining the disease ridden Pontine marshes;

* Modernizing the railway systems;

* Created a better electrochemical by which rayon and other artificial fabrics were created;

* Increased automobile production; and

* Building a large aeronautical industry.

These programs of course vastly improved Italy's unemployment problem and with continued foreign investments from the West, made Italy a fascist state that Western Europe could tolerate and negotiate with as opposed to the Soviet brand of dictatorship.