This revision guide supports your exam preparation for IBDP History Paper 2, Topic 10: Authoritarian States, using Mussolini's Italy (1914-1945) as a discrete example. Structured to mirror the syllabus, it uses key questions to explore the issues that are most important to historians and examiners.

Coverage includes:
* The path from unification to authoritarianism
* `Liberal Italy', `trasformismo', and the `mutilated victory' of WWI
* Mussolini's shift from Left to Right and the rise of the Fascist movement
* Maintenance of power, from violent oppression to media control
* The aims and results of foreign, social, and economic policies.

Features include:
* Sample essay questions, with guidance on potential approaches
* `Key Perspectives' boxes to highlight differing historical interpretations of core issues
* Definitions of key technical and historical terms
* Timelines to help visualise and contextualise important events