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The March on Rome wasn’t anything like the high drama depicted in official propaganda . It had played out as farce.

Legacy of the First World War By the early 1920s, Italian society simmered with discontent. The country’s economy was in shambles. High unemployment and rising prices made life difficult for millions of people. Class divisions bred antagonism and anxiety. Wealthy landowners were at odds with peasants who wanted to form agricultural unions. In some areas, poor peasants seized farms. In the

Wounded American soldiers are brought to a Red Cross station after a battle in France, 1918. Approximately 20 million soldiers and civilians were killed during the First World War, and many communities in Europe were destroyed in the fighting.

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Fascism: Radical Nationalism