WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mussolini built the first totalitarian state. In this form of government, a one-party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens. Other dictators, notably Stalin and Hitler, followed Musso-lini’s lead.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1922 Mussolini led a coalition of fascist leaders to Rome and forced the king to yield the government. Mussolini was appointed prime minister. By 1925 he had dismantled Italy’s democratic government and, acting as a dictator, declared himself Il Duce ("The Leader").

Detailed explanation-3: -Economic Collapse Fear plagued the citizens who had just witnessed the horrors of war. Their entire society was crumbling down around them. Any time fear feeds on the people, an opportunity arises for systems of government to step in that can go to the extreme as in totalitarianism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Benito Mussolini was an Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945.