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The rise of Fascism in Italy was the result of a conservative reaction to change. How far do you agree?  

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The rise of Fascism in Italy was the result of a conservative reaction to change. How far do you agree? The time between the World Wars was one of economic hardship and political unrest in most of Europe. Hitler and Mussolini were two men who led their respective states through this time in similar, yet differing ways. While some of the ideas were the same, the background, implementation and outcome of these ideas differed between Germany and Italy. The new unified state of Italy was far from being a great success in the years before 1914; the strain of the First World War on her precarious economy and the bitter disappointment of the "Mutilated Victory" after the Treaty of Versailles caused growing discontent. Between 1919 and 1922 there were five different governments all of which were unable to take the decisive action that the situation demanded. In 1919 Benito Mussolini founded the...

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