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9: Rise of Mussolini Pt. 3 - Prime Minister Mussolini

History of the Second World War

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The Effects of the March on Rome on Italian Birth Rates

Italian birth rates were declining during the decades leading up to the First World War and in its immediate aftermath. A campaign was launched to encourage large families and to bolster rural Italy. Neither of these policies would result in much of a change, and Italian birth rates would not drastically change. The following purchasing power in 1923 would be the worst in Italy until the war years. This was one of the contributing causes, although certainly not the only reason, for a drastic reduction in the purchasing power of wages for Italian workers in 1923.

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