major part in how he ruled Italy for the next twenty one years. His vision was to

raise Italy's prestige in the eyes of the world and attempt to re -create an empire to

rival that of Ancient Rome. To achieve this, various policies were introduced to

revolutionise and influence most parts of Italian Industry and society, in an eventual

attempt to transform Italy into a self -sufficient nation, from this basis point Mussolini

could then follow his colonial and imperial ambitions for enlarging the Italian

empire. However, "opportunities" such as the World War Two soon showed Italy was

unable to maintain a modern war machine, and this under -preparation clearly had

it's foundations in various failed economic and social policies that had been

When Mussolini came to power in 1922 the Italian economy was backward

compared with the rest of Western Europe, and it's industries, though steadily

growing, needed development and were centralised in the northern part of the

country. Indeed half the population still made it's living by farming and agriculture

and even this was flawed by the fact land was not available

large corporations to run their affairs with minimum government interference; but at

were little more than a satellite and puppet of Nazi German control. This reliance on

winners emerging from the "Corporate State" were industries such as steel and ship -

stabilised the economy and was followed by tariffs on foreign goods to encourage

postpone the war for three years to prepare, but Hitler would wait for no one and

However, the economic sanctions placed on Italy by the League of Nations in

The labour movement was also crushed, due to the Corporate State, allowing the

these ever -closer links with Nazi Germany were disliked by most Italians and the

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