HIST 410N Week 2 Assignment: Essay – Video Analysis | Video Analysis: Benito Mussolini (solution) LATEST UPDATE 2022
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In this video, the life of Benito Mussolini has been detailed, including his rise to power
and his fall. The video paints an image of how Mussolini was the pioneer dictator of the 20th
VIDEO ANALYSIS: BENITO MUSSOLINI 2
century, having been dismissed as a wag whose rule was Hitler and Stalin’s...
In this video, the life of Benito Mussolini has been detailed, including his rise to power
and his fall. The video paints an image of how Mussolini was the pioneer dictator of the 20th
, VIDEO ANALYSIS: BENITO MUSSOLINI 2
century, having been dismissed as a wag whose rule was Hitler and Stalin’s shadow (Stevenson,
& Cameron, 2018). Nonetheless, among the despots who ruled in the 20th century, Mussolini
was a pioneer who used extreme tactics such as undermining the judiciary and indoctrinating
children in the name of seizing power. Mussolini developed the ideology of fascism that brought
darkness over Europe. The paper describes three interesting aspects of the video aligning with
foreign policy, violent and/or non-violent movements for social, economic, and Governmental
authority/loss of personal liberties.
One of the exciting things noticeable is the fascist foreign policy. Mussolini plans were
protecting the Mediterranean Sea as well as some sections of Africa.In just his 1st year of the
ruling (1923), he launched an attack against the Greek island of Corfu as a justification of the
killings of 4 Italians. Mussolini played a statesman of Europe as a tactic that proved to work. For
example, he made agreements with Yugoslavia, which followed the proposal of Fiume to Italy. In
Libya, Mussolini strengthened the position of Italy, made more investments into the military, and
made further plans to extend into Africa, in particular, eying Ethiopia where Adva’s extermina-
tion had not been justified since 1896 (Gooch, 2007). In 1935, Ethiopia was attacked, and after
defeating the nation Victor Emanuel III, an Italian ruler, was declared to be the head of the coun-
try. Ethiopia is one of the few countries in Africa which were not colonized even though at least
400,000 Italian soldiers were involved in the dispute using brutal tactics such as toxin gas bombs
and slaughter (Pini, 2019).
The rise of the fascist movement was solely because of the violence used. Mussolini and
his followers benefited from the strikers by workers to call for violence (Stevenson, & Cameron,
2018). Between 1919 and 1922, Mussolini utilized paramilitary violence to have Italy destabi-
lized, creating a perception that there was a crisis in leadership, and he was the only ‘savior.’
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