How Did Benito Mussolini Impact The World

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World War 2 was a time of massive change around the world. A leader such as Benito Mussolini left large impacts on today’s society that are very significant in world history. He centralized all power to himself as the leader of the Fascist party and he wanted to create a grand empire in alliance with Germany. He ruled Italy as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943 and in 1925 he ended his constitutional rule and dropped the pretense of democracy to establish a dictatorship. Mussolini was the founder of Italian Fascism and the The National Fascist Party which is an Italian political party as the political expression of fascism. Their goal and desire was to restore and expand Italian territories, which Italian Fascists deemed necessary for a nation

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