Mussolini consolidation dates

Workbook page 18-24

Socialist trade unions called a general strike which Mussolini used to his advantage by taking control of the postal service and public transport

July 1922

March on Rome

27 October 1922

King Victor Emmanuel asked Mussolini to be the Prime Minister of Italy

29 October 1922

Mussolini was given emergency powers after delivering a threatening speech

November 1922

Mussolini created the Fascist Grand Council

December 1922

The Fascist Party had 300,000 members

October 1922

The Fascist Militia (MSVN) was created

January 1923

The Fascist Party had 800,000 members

By the end of 1923

Nationalists closed their own organisation and joined the Fascists

1923

Election held and the Fascists received 2/3 of the vote

6 April 1924

Fascists forbidden from belonging to the Freemasons

February 1924

Giacomo Matteotti made an anti-Fascist speech

30 May 1924

Mussolini started to plan an attack on the Mafia

June 1924

Matteotti was kidnapped and killed

10 June 1924

Angelo Rossi published evidence of Mussolini’s role in Matteotti’s death

December 1924

Mussolini made a strong speech to the Parliamentary Chamber

3 January 1925

Liberals tried and failed to censure Mussolini

16 January 1925

Press Law passed which made it mandatory for journalists to be on a register controlled by the Fascists

December 1925

Legge Fascistissime passed, banning opposition parties and non-Fascist trade unions

December 1925

Mussolini was given the power to pass laws by personal decree

January 1926

The Fascist Congress did not meet anymore

After 1925

Through a circular Mussolini insisted that the party must be subordinate to him because it was ‘simply the instrument of the state’s will’

1927

60,000 hostile members of the Fascist Party were purged

1928-1929

The Italian parliament lost its ability to debate, discuss and amend legislation

By 1926

Parliament was completely abolished and replaced by the meaningless Chamber of Fasces and Corporations

January 1939

Mussolini was increasingly hostile towards the King, making him powerless

By 1930

King Emmanuel called for Mussolini’s arrest

25 July 1943