... and France during the war, but when the war ended it was not handed over. This made it look as if the Italian Government had been ignored. the governments after the war were weak. they were coalitions (made up of more than one party) and were ... Rome if he was not appointed prime minister. the king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, who supported Mussolini, refused to back the existing government and invited him to become prime minister. Once he was prime minister, Mussolini persuaded the king to allow him to rule as a ... boot; people who made their money through financial manipulation r...

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... high. These conditions made it possible for the fascist movements to become established, to generate mass support, and, during times of continuing crises, to lay claim to the reins of government. Fascism as an ideology involves, to a varying degree, some of the following hallmarks: Extreme Nationalism and super-patriotism with a sense of historic mission, cult of personality around a charismatic leader, ... Lebensraum in Eastern Europe. Fascism offered an alternative to the system of parliamentary democracy which failed to solve the post-war social and economic problems. This newly crea...

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... early part of the twentieth-century, in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism is a system of government the advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of nationalism. Fascism approaches politics in two central ... to do so. Mussolini said "Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal" (Nazi Fascism and the Modern Totalitarian...

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