In essence, Italy was a historical follower; the government jumped onto the Allied bandwagon when it was clear they would win World War I and later switched sides in order to join the Axis Powers when World War II began. ... At this point, Mussolini was "not obliged by any treaty to fight - If it got to the point where he would be forced to support a side in the fast-approaching world war, he could wait to see which side would win before choosing. ... Mussolini was caught between a rock and hard place until the fighting began, and he could actually decide based on the battle which side to sup...

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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. ... He believes the conflation of the monumental which he describes as "backward looking" as reflecting the political ideologies of the Third Reich and other totalitarian regimes, as well as the association of modern architecture with liberal democracy and the social welfare state as being too simplistic. ... Therefore neoclassicism could no longer be reduced to being a side effect of totalitarian regimes. ... The federal controlled access highway system in ...

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The task of explaining why appeasement, has been continuously addressed by historians over the years. To date, there is still no single cause identified. Nonetheless there is however a general consensus amongst historians that the frightful events of world war one, distilled a sense of fear and regr...

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