USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Fascism was popularized by which World War II leader?
A
Adolf Hitler
B
Joseph Stalin
C
Hideki Tojo
D
Benito Mussolini
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Fascism arose in Europe after World War I when many people yearned for national unity and strong leadership. In Italy, Benito Mussolini used his charisma to establish a powerful fascist state. Benito Mussolini coined the term “fascism” in 1919 to describe his political movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mussolini, fearful of being handed over, was instead rescued by Hitler’s forces. Transported to German-occupied northern Italy, he was installed as Hitler’s puppet leader, creating the Italian Social Republic and leading to the extermination of thousands of Italian Jews.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Benito Mussolini came up with the term fascism, he created the first one-party fascist state and he set the playbook and template for everything that came after, ” Ben-Ghiat says. An important part of that was the cult of personality that emerged around the Italian leader.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mussolini’s Fascism Italian fascism (in Italian, fascismo) was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. Fascism in Italy combined elements of corporatism, totalitarianism, nationalism, militarism, and anti-Communism.

Detailed explanation-5: -Italian fascism (Italian: fascismo italiano), also known as classical fascism or simply fascism, is the original fascist ideology as developed in Italy by Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini.

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