Study the picture given here and answer the questions that follow:

(a) Identify the person.

(b) What colour did the Shirts worn by his followers have?

(c) Give one evidence to suggest that he pursued an Expansionist (Imperialist) Policy.

(d) Give one evidence to suggest that he was intolerant towards his Opponents.
(A Guide: G. Matteotti, Leader of Socialists in the Parliament, was murdered)

(a) The given picture shows Benito Mussolini.

(b) His followers wore black shirts.

(c) Mussolini preached that the Nation has a Will and a Personality of its own.

1. The growth of empire is an expression of nation's vitality.
2. In order to justify his policy of Imperialism, Mussolini said, "We are forty millions squeezed into our narrow but adorable peninsula. Italy must expand or perish."
3. Abyssinia (Ethiopia) was annexed in 1936 after a most merciless warfare.
4. In fact, War was used by Mussolini to divert peoples' attention from internal problems and economic insecurity.

(d) Although the legislature continued to exist in Italy, but in essence the power of law-making belonged to 'Duce'.

1. The Fascist and the Nazi rulers did not allow other than their own party to operate in the country. Their order was that life should be made "impossible" for their opponents.
2. In 1924, Giacomo Matteotti, leader of the Socialists in the Parliament (Chamber of Deputies) and an extremely bitter critic of Mussolini, was murdered.