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= **Benito Mussolini** = Benito Mussolinin was a fascist dictator who wanted to restore Italy to it's former glory. At first he was a journalist and wrote for the Milan socialist paper “Avanti”. Through this, he began to voice his opionion on war and world war 1. This made the socialists who were against Italy's involvement in war angry.In 1915 he formed his own paper, Il Popolo d’Italia, and continued his promotion for war. However, Italy soon joined Germany's side of the war. Then, Mussolini decided to join the army but was soon discharged due to injury. He returned to his career in journalism in which he began to develop his ideas that would soon become known as Fascism.

Fascism is 
 * A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

[] Mussolini was the dictator who ran Italy. Durring this time, he invaded Ethiopia. They were the only ones that wern't taken by another country at the time. Ethiopia was underdeveloped and could do little to fight off Italy. Italy took them easily.

Mussolini and Hitler were drawn together. Hitler was a fan of Mussolini's work. He even got most of his ideas from him. In 1937, Mussolini decided to go visit Germany and see Hitler. There, Hitler shown Mussolini his military power. This convinced Mussolini that they should be allies. He was sure their alliance would allow Italy to gain more power, making him that much closer to him reastablishing Italy's glory. After that, it was almost like Hitler and Mussolini were competing against eachother, rather than with. Hitler ocupied Austria with the Anschulss without telling Mussolini. And after that, Hitler established that he was creating his empier, and Mussolini wansn't making his Italy's, by taking Czechoslovokia. To compensate, Mussolini took Albinia as a sign of Italy's expansion. However, in 1939, Germany and Italy made the Pact of Steel. This met that if one of them got involved in the war, the other one must back them up. So, later that year, Hitler was going to invade Poland and informed Mussolini. Mussolini, for whatever reason, decided not to fight by his side, going against their pact. Infact, it wasn't until the next year that Italy got involved in the war.

Mussolini's Death Mussolini fell from power in 1943. In the last days of the war, Mussolini tried to escape the advancing﻿ Allied Army. This lead his own people wanting to capture and kill him. He was found in the back of a truck with his mistress heading for the Alps. He was then taken prisoner. He was secretly executed by the counsil of the partisan counsil leaders who were Communists. There were 15 exicuted in all. After their deaths, they were hung by their feet in Milan. Hitler heard of this and he vowed he would not let it happen to him. However, a few days later, he and his wife killed themselves by swallowing poison.

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