Why did the Italians support Mussolini’s takeover of Italy in 1922?
In October of 1922, the king, Victor Emmanuel formally asked Mussolini to form his own government. This decision came, like unto the eventual approval of the communist party in Russia, from a wealth of support from the people, culminating from the fact they were the only party that had done no wrong (well officially anyway, more on that later).
So, for the first point, what had the other parties done wrong? Well, the largest party at the time were the liberals, and, up until the First World War, were reasonably popular. This was however, to change over the handling of the war. Joining the war, he put further strain, on the already exacerbated economy. Although many wanted war, it was to become the all to familiar story of the government taking the blame when it all goes wrong.
