Question

what factors encouraged the developement of totalitarian government in italy

Answer 1

After WW1, Italy was faced with massive unemployment (soldiers returning home needed jobs) and frustrations caused by what many saw as having taken part in a war for nothing except to ruin the country.

Strikes were rampant, anarchists and revolutionaries were instigating trouble, the economy was shaky, and many sought an answer to the chaos -- something which Mussolini and his blackshirts claimed they would bring.