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How did the king of Italy respond to the Fascist Party’s march on Rome?

He named Mussolini the prime minister to avoid a civil war.
He outlawed the labor unions that supported the fascists.
He put in place new elections so people could choose a leader.
He ordered the Italian army to attack Mussolini’s Blackshirts.

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He named Mussolini the prime minister to avoid a civil war.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the near anarchy of the political situation of Italy at the time or if that is thought exaggerated then the impossibility of any lasting government to be formed, Mussolini saw his chance to make “Action” his key word and to gather his men to make his so-called “march on Rome” leading VE to consider he had little choice but to give him his chance to see how good he might be… However fair or impartial he thought himself in letting M proceed in his pseudo revolutionary venture is for others to comment, but he certainly could have acted sooner rather than wait until well into WW2 when his kingdom had lost everything including credibility before calling his bluff. Question could be made as to how good a king was VE for his Country? But he certainly was not alone in having to do something positive to solve democracy’s problem of finding stable government in those immediate post WW1 years of the 1920s: eg Portugal had exactly the same problem and resorting to similar action as Italy’s. Indeed, democracy’s inability to satisfy was almost endemic at the time and probably its contemptible and pathetic way of looking after the Common Man ie people - men who had suffered so much as soldiers and women likewise who had suffered a lot working in armaments and bomb-making factories - did much to lose its credibility. However, thank goodness as Churchill said, it may have been part of a bad lot but it was not the worst, or words to that effect.

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