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    Benito Mussolini was obsessed with Rome. He is the one who created the fascist movement in Italy in 1919. He then turned this movement into a legitimate party called the Fascist Party. By doing this he gained more credit and obtained more followers and supporters. Fascism is this overwhelming idea of patriotism throughout a country. Italy had been going through a stage where many of its people were focused on materialistic things and not on the pure Italian culture. Mussolini changed Italy for the

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    Benito Mussolini was the first fascist dictator in history, however many historians question his ideologies that helped him rise to power and become the most powerful man in Italy. Mussolini’s use of the Blackshirts was effective, to a great extent that the “authority was enforced by the use of the Blackshirts (1).” Above all many people considered him as the “only man capable of restoring order (2)”, when Italy was slipping into political chaos moreover he promised to bring back the glory days

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    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, also known as ‘Il Duce’ meaning “The Leader” in Italian, is one of the most evil men in the world. Benito Mussolini was born July 29, 1883 in Dovia di Predappio, Forlì, Italy. His father, Alessandro, was a blacksmith and a part-time socialist journalist. Instead of being with his family, he spent most of his time on politics and much of his money on his mistress. Mussolini’s mother, Rosa Maltoni, on the other hand was a Catholic school teacher and was the one

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    Benito Mussolini, the great leader of the Italian people. He was aggressive, loved, and praised. He was the dictator of dictators to the people of Italy. Benito Mussolini had achieved many things during his rule in Italy. Yet, one of his most important achievements would have been the ability to stay in power and the creation of a cult through deception and propaganda. Benito Mussolini is most famous for being the dictator-like prime minister for Italy during World War II. He was able to keep his

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    Benito Mussolini, What is Fascism? Italy faced serious postwar economic problems which became known as "The Two Red Years". It faced inflation problems due to government printing money to pay for weapons, workers on strike, arms and shipbuilders became bankrupt due to lack of government order, and unemployment rose to two million as returning soldiers searched for work. Benito Mussolini, upon being removed from the Socialist Party for advocating Italy 's participation in battle, organized the

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    Benito Mussolini was born in Dovia di Predappio, Forli Italy on July 28, 1883. His father was a blacksmith and a socialist who spent most of his money on politics and mistresses. His mother Rosa Maltoni was a school teacher who provided the family resources. Mussolini was an ardent socialist as a youth. He then got expelled for his believe in WW1. As Mussolini grew up he had been kicked out of several schools for defying the school's authority. As he became older he got his teaching credential and

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    Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on 29 July 1883. He was born in Predappio in Northern Central Italy. They lived in a crowded two room house on the second floor of a palazzo. His father was a blacksmith and a member of the Socialist party. As a child, he was very smart but he was also very disobedient. As a child his father taught him about the Socialist party and to disobey authority. As a result, he was expelled from many schools. Because of this he was sent to the strict

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    contrast the rise of Hitler and Mussolini to power; continue with contrasting and comparing Hitler and Mussolini’s regimes (no focus on foreign policy) Benito Mussolini (in power in Italy between 1922- 43) and Adolf Hitler (in power in Germany between 1933-45) were fascist leaders who were able to rise to power and establish totalitarian regimes during the interwar period by manipulating feelings of national discontent resulting from the Versailles settlement.Both Mussolini and Hitler relied upon social

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    the seas, Italy had far more important matters at hand such as forging an alliance with the Vatican, recognizing it as a sovereign state and Mussolini with his family receiving an official blessing from the Pope. It officially declared itself a totalitarian state in 1935 and using propaganda to depose the king through plebiscite thus making Benito Mussolini the sole leader. Wanting to increase its prestige on the national stage it successfully and swiftly invaded Ethiopia in 1935 making it a subservient

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    Contextualisation La Proclamazione dell’Impero was a speech delivered by Mussolini in 1936 which declared Italy an empire after its victory in placing Ethiopia ‘sotti la sovranità piena e intera del Regno d’Italia’. During this period, the feeling of betrayal and disillusionment still lingered following World War One, in which Italy did not receive the territories promised to them by the Allies. This left an Italy which felt dejected; it had lost faith in its government and its nation, and as a result

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