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What was life like in Italy during WW2?
Life in Italy during World War II didn’t differ much from that of other civilians around Europe. It was characterized by restrictions. Living under a dictatorship, such restrictions didn’t simply take the form of limited amounts of non-National goods, fuel, and even items of clothing, but also of censorship.
What was life like in Italy before WWII?
Life in Fascist Italy
| Organisation | Age Group | Uniform |
|---|---|---|
| Sons of the She Wolf | 4 to 8 | Black shirt |
| Balilla | 8 to 14 | Black shirt, black cap, shorts, grey socks |
| Avanguardista | 14 to 18 | Same as Balilla except knickerbockers instead of shorts. |
What was happening in Italy in WW2?
Italy became a war zone. For 18 months the Allies fought the Germans up the peninsula, wreaking untold devastation throughout the land. The Allies took Naples in October 1943 but reached Rome only in June 1944, Florence in August, and the northern cities in April 1945.
What was Italy like after WW2?
After the fall of the Fascist regime in Italy and the end of World War II, Italian politics and society were dominated by Christian Democracy (DC), a broad-based Christian political party, from 1946 to 1994. From the late 1940s until 1991, the opposition was led by the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
What was it like to live during WW2?
Over a million were evacuated from towns and cities and had to adjust to separation from family and friends. Many of those who stayed, endured bombing raids and were injured or made homeless. All had to deal with the threat of gas attack, air raid precautions (ARP), rationing, changes at school and in their daily life.
What was Italy like 1945?
After the war, unemployment rates rose and the value of the “lira”, the Italian currency, collapsed. In one year, from 1945 to 1946, the cost of goods doubled; the cost of living was 20 times higher than in 1938. The recovery was slow, the transition to a “peace” industry was difficult and there were no commodities.