After the First World War, Europe’s working class went on a massive radicalization process. The political crisis following World War I, called "the red two years," or Biennio Rosso (1919-1920), revealed the weakness of the Italian states’. Within the process of radicalization, the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) started a dictatorship of the proletariat and was very successful, winning 32% of the votes in 1919 elections. Massive strikes broke up in several industries in Turin in 1919, and among agricultural laborers in North-central areas in Italy.
He was the ruling monarch of Great Britain during the time of the Colonies and the American Revolution. He was essentially the reason that the Colonists revolted.