The Institutional Framework of Mussolini's Fascist Dictatorship

question 53

Multiple Choice

The institutional framework of Mussolini's Fascist dictatorship

• A) lacked a secret police force.
• B) included highly popular and well attended Fascists youth organizations.
• C) was primarily aimed at aiding the workers and peasants.
• D) never created the degree of totalitarian control found in Russia and Germany in the 1930s.
• E) was the most successful of the authoritarian states that appeared in Europe in the interwar years.

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