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    2015 Benito Mussolini: Il Duce of Fascism Part 1: Intro Mankind has almost always been ruled by different forms of government. From Democracy to Dictatorships, mankind choose which they thought was best for their country. Some took advantage and ruled the way that they thought was best for themselves and created their version of the best country. One of these people was Benito Mussolini; He was the Italian Prime Minister and dictator after World War I and during World War II. Mussolini believed

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    Benito Mussolini, known as “Il Duce,” was the founder of the totalitarian form of government known as Fascism. However that was not enough recognition; Mussolini wanted to demonstrate to the world that he could be a successful ruler as well. Mussolini came to power and remained in power primarily due to the actions of the Italian Blackshirts. As the Blackshirts maintained law and order, terrorized political opponents, defended Italy, and marched on Rome, Mussolini successfully ruled as dictator.

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    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. He went by the nickname “II Duce” (“The Leader”). He was an Italian dictator who created the Fascist Party in 1919. He eventually held all the power Italy as the country's prime minister from 1922 until 1943. He later died on April 28, 1945.As dictator during World War II, he overextended his forces and was eventually killed by his own people. His father was a blacksmith and a impassioned socialist who spent much of his time on politics

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    Hodge Period 1 March 8, 2016 Benito Mussolini One of the dictators that came to power between WWI and WWII was the infamous Benito Mussolini. He once said, “We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.” He was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the Fascist Party. He ruled the country as Prime Minister from the year 1922 to 1943. He was also known as II Duce and Iron Perfect. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883

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    A Brief History of the Countries- Italy Immediately following WWI, fascist right-wing dictators promised to stop the spread of Bolshevism. Benito Mussolini, a manipulative politician and charismatic leader, blamed socialists for Italy’s state of weakness, and became Prime Minister after the “Blackshirts” March in October 1922. Mussolini used violence and intimidation to arrest 4,000, and reinstated the death penalty. In October 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia and the League of Nations only passed

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    Born on July 29, 1883, in Dovia di Predappio, Forlì, Italy, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was the eldest of three children. His father, Alessandro, was a blacksmith and a socialist who spent most of his time on politics and his money on his mistress. Mussolini’s mother, Rosa, was a Catholic schoolteacher who provided their family with stability and income. While he was younger, Benito Mussolini showed intelligence, but was disobedient. His father instilled in him a passion for socialist politics

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    named Benito Mussolini to find the first Fascist movement. In 1922 the Fascist movement marched on Rome and began to flex its muscles as Mussolini was named prime minster. “The Doctrine of Fascism was written by Mussolini to illustrate the ideological stance of the Fascist party. Most people who would read this would be of the middle class or higher. This type of literature would appeal to those who were upset with the results of world war one, and those who were growing up in the Mussolini regime

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    peasant rebellions, and political tension; the one thing Italians agreed on was their need for a new government. Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), or ‘Il Duce,’ was originally a poor revolutionary boy who rose through the ranks, creating a totalitarian government. After the March to Rome (October 1922), Mussolini was called by the king to discuss his ideas for a new government, one Mussolini called Fascism. This somewhat new form of secular government supported extreme nationalism while it strictly disencouraged

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    • Mussolini came to power with misguided benevolence and tried to transform the country's economy along the fascist ideology, at least on paper. However, his main interest was to use economic power to control the people to politically reshape the Italian state to fit his ideological outlook. Mussolini believed his fascist ideology was for the benefit of the people, however, this does not make his dictatorship benevolent. Based on Plato’s idea of philosopher-king a benevolent leader rules with

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    totalitarianism, and attempts by the Italian state to implement fascism in theory, in practice Italian fascism did not show the signs required of a totalitarian state. Certainly, Italian fascism in theory fully embraced the theory of totalitarian government. In Benito Mussolini’s “Doctrine of Fascism”, written in the Encyclopedia Italiana in 1932, he writes of how “Fascism conceives of the state as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative”(YB). He brought in the concepts of national

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