Question

The data in the timeline best support the conclusion that Benito Mussolini was:

A. a revolutionary in ideological opposition to the United States.
B. a fascist upstart with little or no authority to rule.
C. a demagogue lacking in sufficient resources to mount a military challenge.
D. a threat to global peace and territorial sovereignty.

Answer 1

B. a fascist upstart with little or no authority to rule.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is the conclusion that is best supported by the timeline. We do not know, based on the timeline, whether Mussolini was opposed to the United States or not, as the timeline does not mention the United States. We also do not know anything about Mussolini's resources or whether he was a threat to the world in the way Hitler was. However, we do know that he was a fascist because we learn that he formed an alliance with Hitler. We also know he had no authority to rule because he dissolved the Italian parliament and assumed dictatorial power.

Answer 2

The correct answer is "A"

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (Predappio, July 29, 1883, Giulino, April 28, 1945) was an Italian politician, military and journalist; President of the Council of Royal Ministers of Italy from 1922 to 1943 and Duce -guide- of the Italian Social Republic from 1943 until its execution. He brought to power the National Fascist Party and subsequent Republican Fascist Party, and led a totalitarian regime during the period known as Italian Fascism of the Kingdom of Italy under the blessing of Victor Emmanuel III. In addition, he was the one who led Italy during the Second World War, as part of his imperialist plans in Europe and Africa.

Affiliated with the Italian Socialist Party, in 1914 he was expelled from that organization for holding irredentist nationalist positions contrary to the internationalism of the main socialist leaders. In 1922, already as official leader of the National Fascist Party he organized the March on Rome, after whose victory he was named president of the Council of Ministers. Mussolini gained increasing popular support through the exaltation of pan-Italianism, expansionism and anti-communism, using his military influence supported by efficient fascist propaganda and mass concentrations charged with symbolism.

Fascism is presented as a "third way" or "third position" that is radically opposed to both liberal democracy in crisis (the form of government that represented the values ​​of the victors in the First World War, such as the United Kingdom, France or the United States, which he considers decadent) as the ideologies of the traditional rising workers' movement (anarchism or Marxism). However, some authors argue that fascism derives in greater measure from the classic socialist matrix characterized by a state with a communitarian, highly interventionist, revolutionary, antiliberal and anti-capitalist sense, in which exacerbated nationalist elements are added opposing the class struggle through a strong anti-Marxism but adopting a post-Marxist thesis that would share with Leninism, the "struggle of nations" - concept that is perhaps the most enduring ideological contribution of fascism after the Second World War, because this idea would be later adopted by the nationalist ideologies of the Third World and the center-periphery theory.