How was Mussolini able to gain power in Italy? He played to the prejudices of the Italians. He fought off Hitler’s attempt to annex Italy. He led a coup to take over a weakened government. He proposed new ideas to solve the economic crisis.

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He led a coup to take over a weakened government.

Benito Mussolini was able to gain power in Italy by proposition of new ideas to solve the economic crisis. So, the correct option that matches the quote statement is D.

Benito Mussolini became the prime authority of Italy after there was a phase of economic depression in the Italy due to the exploitation by the ruling party.

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  • Not just Italy, but there was an overall economic depression globally due to the threats of the World War at the doors of the countries. USA had updated its terms on trade with Italy.

  • Following this, the economic depression era started in Italy when the influence of Spanish flu was also on the corners in the early time during the Twentieth Century.

  • Benito Mussolini proposed different ideas which were preferred by the people in a hope that their conditions will improve hugely after implementations of such ideas.

  • The citizens also demanded for a change in the authority and due to the favoritism of Mussolini due to the ideas he was chosen as the candidate by the citizens for the tenure 1915-1917.

Hence, the correct option is D that Mussolini suggested new ideas to solve the economic crisis and was able to gain the power over these ideas being suggested.

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