Joining World War II was presented as a war on decadent plutocracies.R. J. B. Bosworth, Mussolini's Italy, p. 9 The powers were also claimed to have prevented Italian imperialism. Mussolini began to decry the oppression that Italy suffered as early as the peace negotiations of World War I and the first days of Fascism as a movement.R. J. B. Bosworth, Mussolini's Italy, p99
