History A-Level
Dual tactics
What Dual tactics means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Dual tactics
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Combined the threat of illegal violence, epitomised by the March on Rome, with legal political negotiations.
Topics that use Dual tactics
- 2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945 – Mussolini and the establishment of Fascist Italy, 1922–1926 (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Authoritarianism
- Cult of Il Duce
- Factions
- Fascist revolution
- King Victor Emmanuel III
- March on Rome
- Political compromise
- Propaganda
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