Fascist Italy

Regno d'Italia
Kingdom of Italy

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1922–1943

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Motto
FERT FERT FERT

Anthem
Marcia Reale
Giovinezza

Vatican City (1929)

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Capital

Rome

Government

Constitutional monarchy

King

- 1922-1943

Victor Emmanuel III

Prime Minister

- 1922-1943

Benito Mussolini

Legislature

Grand Council of Fascism

- Upper house

Senate

- Lower house

Chamber of Fasci and Corporations

History

- October 28, 1922

March on Rome

- May 9, 1936

Empire proclaimed

- July 28, 1943

Mussolini deposed

- September 3, 1943

Armistice with the Allies

- June 2, 1946

Constitutional referendum

Area

310,196 km²

Population

- 1936

42,994,000

Density

138.6/km²

Currency

Italian lira

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The Kingdom of Italy (1922-1943) was a period when the government of Italy developed into a fascist dictatorship under Benito Mussolini (₳|₩). Italy entered World War II in 1940 as an ally of Germany, but after the Allied invasion of Sicily (₳|₩) in 1943 Mussolini was deposed. The new Italian government signed an armistice with the Allies and broke the alliance with Germany. Germany then installed Mussolini as the head of puppet state in northern Italy called the Italian Social Republic, while the government of the Kingdom of Italy was re-established in the south with the support of the Allies.

Government[]

In 1922, Benito Mussolini came to power and, over the next few years, eliminated political parties, curtailed personal liberties, and installed a fascist dictatorship termed the Corporate State. The king, with little or no effective power, remained titular head of state.

Italy allied with Germany and declared war on the United Kingdom and Vichy France in 1940. In 1941, Italy - with the other Axis powers, Germany and Imperial Japan - declared war on the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, the King dismissed Mussolini and appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio as Premier. The Badoglio government declared war on Germany, which quickly occupied most of the country and freed Mussolini, who led a brief-lived regime in the north.^[1]