 Complete the following phrase:  Fascist Italy is the era of National Fascist Party government from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as head of government. The fascists imposed totalitarian rule and crushed the political and intellectual opposition, while promoting economic modernization, traditional social values and a rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church. According to Payne 1996, the Fascist government passed through several relatively distinct phases. The first phase 19231925 was nominally a continuation of the parliamentary system, albeit with a legally-organized executive dictatorship. Then came the second phase, the construction of the Fascist dictatorship proper, from 1925 to 1929. The third phase, with less activism, was 1929 to 1934. The fourth phase, 19351940, was characterized by an aggressive foreign policy: 