AQA A Level History Depth Study: Italy and Fascism, c1900-1945 June 2024 question paper 7042/2L

With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the Corporate State in Italy.

‘In the ten years before entering the First World War in 1915, Italy was politically stable and economically strong.’

Assess the validity of this view.

To what extent was Mussolini’s rise to power, in the years 1919 to 1922, due to Fascist opposition to Socialism?

‘In the years 1935 to 1939, the war in Abyssinia brought considerable benefits for Mussolini and Italy.’

Assess the validity of this view.