GENERAL AS 101 WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT ESSAY VIDEO
ANALYSIS
Week 2 Assignment: Essay – Video
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, Week 2 Assignment: Essay – Video Analysis
The video gives information regarding the rise of Benito Mussolini and how he fell. It
explains why Mussolini was seen as the pioneer among dictators in the 20th century. He was
dismissed as a clown, a small league dictator who ruled in the shadow of Stalin and Hitler. In
any case, in the realm of twentieth-century despots, Benito Mussolini was a pioneer. From
indoctrinating children, to undermining judges, Mussolini developed tactics that enabled him to
seize power. He is also considered to have created fascism which is an ideology that led Europe
into a darkness period. This paper aims at identifying and describing three 3 aspects of the video
I found most interesting that align with foreign policy violent and/or non-violent movements for
social, economic, and political change and governmental authority/loss of personal liberties.
The fascist foreign policy was one thing I found interesting as it turned expansionist with
time. In particular, Mussolini planned to protect the area in Africa and the Mediterranean Sea,
for which he received an obsolete Roman remedy for a female horse ("our ocean"). Indeed, even
in 1923, in the first year of his tenure, he quickly attacked the Greek island of Corfu to justify
the killing of four Italian citizens forming part of the universal limit designation ("Benito
Mussolini | Season 1 Episode 3 | The Dictator's Playbook", 2019). Over the next decade, he
played a European statesman, and in 1924 he agreed with Yugoslavia, who proposed Fiume to
Italy.
In addition, he continued to strengthen Italy’s position in Libya, develop the military, and
plan further extensions in Africa, especially Ethiopia, where the extermination at Adva in 1896
was still to be justified. In October 1935, Italy finally attacked Ethiopia - Adva was one of the
main victories - and by May 1936 defeated the nation and declared the Italian ruler Victor
Emanuel III the head of Ethiopia. Ethiopia was the main prominent country in Africa that
escaped colonization. Almost 400,000 Italian soldiers took part in the dispute (Pini, 2019). The
ANALYSIS
Week 2 Assignment: Essay – Video
Analysis Name
Institution Affiliation
, Week 2 Assignment: Essay – Video Analysis
The video gives information regarding the rise of Benito Mussolini and how he fell. It
explains why Mussolini was seen as the pioneer among dictators in the 20th century. He was
dismissed as a clown, a small league dictator who ruled in the shadow of Stalin and Hitler. In
any case, in the realm of twentieth-century despots, Benito Mussolini was a pioneer. From
indoctrinating children, to undermining judges, Mussolini developed tactics that enabled him to
seize power. He is also considered to have created fascism which is an ideology that led Europe
into a darkness period. This paper aims at identifying and describing three 3 aspects of the video
I found most interesting that align with foreign policy violent and/or non-violent movements for
social, economic, and political change and governmental authority/loss of personal liberties.
The fascist foreign policy was one thing I found interesting as it turned expansionist with
time. In particular, Mussolini planned to protect the area in Africa and the Mediterranean Sea,
for which he received an obsolete Roman remedy for a female horse ("our ocean"). Indeed, even
in 1923, in the first year of his tenure, he quickly attacked the Greek island of Corfu to justify
the killing of four Italian citizens forming part of the universal limit designation ("Benito
Mussolini | Season 1 Episode 3 | The Dictator's Playbook", 2019). Over the next decade, he
played a European statesman, and in 1924 he agreed with Yugoslavia, who proposed Fiume to
Italy.
In addition, he continued to strengthen Italy’s position in Libya, develop the military, and
plan further extensions in Africa, especially Ethiopia, where the extermination at Adva in 1896
was still to be justified. In October 1935, Italy finally attacked Ethiopia - Adva was one of the
main victories - and by May 1936 defeated the nation and declared the Italian ruler Victor
Emanuel III the head of Ethiopia. Ethiopia was the main prominent country in Africa that
escaped colonization. Almost 400,000 Italian soldiers took part in the dispute (Pini, 2019). The
