Which of the following techniques would Mussolini use to maintain power? Select all that apply.

Question 5 options:

allow democratic elections

Use military to take and maintain control

imprison and kill political opponents

Fight Fascism and give freedom to citizens

Answer: B is correct (used military)

Explanation: democracy and its institutions were considered decadent and weakening the strength and vigour of peoples already in the late 19th century. Mussolini made part of that tradition. Mussolini and those similar to him preached different values and intended to establish a new age. New age was to be based not on rationality, analysis, science but on force, strength, instinct. Strong military power was one of the pionneering forces of this new age not only for Mussolini.

The correct answer is Use military to take and maintain control

He was the maximum leader (the dulce) of Italy during the period from 1922 to 1943 - when he was arrested by allied troops during World War II. He was also the one who created the fascist movement, which gave rise to the National Fascist Party, in the late 1910s. Mussolini was the first totalitarian ideologist in Europe to reach the maximum power of a Western European nation.

The exercise of political power, for Mussolini, should extend to all areas of the individuals' lives, which should be adjusted to the will of Dulce, that is, of himself, as a leader capable of leading everyone towards the "triumph of Italy ", As a nation and empire. The aspiration for total control of citizens' lives by the State inspired several other political leaders of the time, among them Francisco Franco, in Spain, Adolf Hitler, in Germany