What was Italy like just before WWII?

Question

I'm writting a book and I need some good discriptions on what, basically, every day life was like in Italy right before WWII.
Help! :)

Answer 1

Here are twoa good sights to go to for answers about Italy from 1900 to present time.http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/italy_1900_to_1939.htm
http://www.arcaini.com/ITALY/ItalyHistory/ItalyHistory.html

The next sight gives several reference books from 1800 to mid 1960http://faculty.mville.edu/bowlingl/Italy%20After%201800.htm

This this sight refers to a book that is 1700-1800 Italy. http://worldcat.org/wcpa/ow/a674ba92dc94b5e8.html

The last sight I will refer you to is Italy from 1400 to 1700 http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw18italygermany.htm

Any of these sights can give you detail history of daily life in Italy during any of the times prior to WW2

Answer 2

It depends on which era you pick before WW2, in the early days say the 30's it APPEARED to be a NEW ROMAN EMPIRE on the rise, or at least that is what Mussolini wanted the people to think.

He built up his armies and prepared to invade territoried once held by the former Roman empire such as the Balkans, Crete, and all of North Africa.

before they launched their attacks, things appeared fairly good and normal to every one, some great historical excavations were discovered such as the huge ships of Caligula sunk in a lake. He had the lake drained using ancient Roman ducts once used to save the temple of one of their goddesses. they fixed it and removed all the water which exposed to the massive ships.

Any thing larger than they could have ever imagined. It was a luxury ship for the Emperor and was destroyed after Caligula was murdered.

BUT due to the war it and man other archaelogical great finds were destroyed, such as Monte Casino.

So the days just before the Italians attacked in WW2 was not great but not bad either for a fascist state that is, he did not deport Jews as Hitler did, that happened after the Germans took control of Italy did mass Jews get deported from Italy.

so for the Jews life was far better in fascist Italy than Germany until the Germany too over conriol that is.

sure it was not a great place being Fascist, but it was compareable to China and Russia of older days when both were huge giant Communist nations but had major idealogical differences which made them enemies in the end to many degrees with only the Capitalist West holding them together in a loose alliance.


Hope that helps

Answer 3

See Fellini's movie Amarcord, and Benigni's Life is Beautiful. Both portray well the beauty that was Fascist Italy...

Only being partially sarcastic: they really do paint those times in rosier-than-reality colors.

Answer 4

if your writing a book on the subject shouldn't you know the answer?

Answer 5

less free than it was afterwords. But if your instructor is a lib, then do not expect her/him to believe it.