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Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power - College Essays

Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power

Benito Mussolini rose in to power very fast. His Fascist Party Blackshirts
marched into Rome in 1922, one year before Hitler's first failed try to
seize power. When Hitler became the Fuehrer (Leader) of Germany, Mussolini
had been "IL DUCE" (Leader) of Italy for more than ten years. Mussolini had
been successful in improving the Italian economy, as it was said, "He made
the trains run on time" (by shooting someone if they didn't). He wanted to
regain Italy’s prestige and power.

Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy, was an European political leader.
Just like Hitler, Mussolini served in the World War1 as a young man and he
dreamed of military fame in a Second War to come. Hitler and ...

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he looked
elsewhere for allies and found Germany and Japan.

He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-
1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo
Franco, but being associated with the atrocities of this brutal war lost
him still more support in the rest of the world. His biggest mistake,
however, was the decision to enter the Second World War. On 10 June 1940,
Germany had been at war with Britain and France since the previous
September, but Italy was still at peace, and had little reason to fear that
any of the other powers would attack it. Germany was on the verge of
winning the Battle of France, and France was likely to surrender very soon,
and it seemed to many observers that Britain would then make peace. Perhaps
Mussolini thought that Italy would be the next target for Nazi aggression,
if he did not help Hitler win; or he may have just been moved to grab a
piece of France before it was too late. In any case, he did ...

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