How Did Benito Mussolini Rule Italy

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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an italian dictator but originally a revolutionary socialist who later became prime minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. After the leader of italy at the time gave mussolini permission to rule italy thinking that mussolini was going to fix a number of italy’s problems ranging from the bad economy to the lose of nationalism overall rose to power as prime minister after world war one. Benito mussolini was also the leader and creator of the fascist party which lead his country into world war two allied with germany and russia to gain territory as well as power eventually ending in his death in 1945 due to the dissatisfaction of his people for a wide range of reasons.

Early life
Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. He his father’s name war Alessandro and his mother name was Rosa. mussolini also had two younger siblings a sister and a brother whose names were blank. Mussolini's dad was a blank and his mother was a blank but even with both of his parents working he was very poor. He was raised in believing in socialism, republicanism and nationalism from his father who was a part time socialist activist. mussolini supported his father and followed his footsteps in believing many things for example the fact that Roman Catholic Church was the enemy of Italy. Mussolini didn't like school catholic people ran his school. He did not behave well in school and
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Mussolini at the time created the fasict part in italy and was striving to become leader of italy mussolini originally was part of the socialist party as a revolutionary but abandoned his party to promote italian

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