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Benito Mussolini
By the time the 1930s had arrived and East Africa faced a financial depression, Britain’s former enemy Germany began to see a change in the government. In the year 1933, former World War I German soldier and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Hitler, who still harbored hatred against the Allied Powers for punishing Germany after the first World War in the Versailles Treaty, hoped to not only gain back German pride, but he hoped to complete a sinister plot in which he would become the ruler of the world. With the help of his Italian partner Benito Mussolini who became Italy’s official dictator in 1922, and shared in the similar goal of conquering North Africa, as well as Japan’s desire to conquer Asian countries, Hitler began his goal of world domination. The rise of World War II had begun.
As Hitler was continuing in his goal of conquering Europe, Mussolini decided to send his Italian forces to conquer North and East Africa. The reason for his desire to conquer it was because he wanted to recreate a second
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It had lost control over the country, and by the time Mussolini was in power, he sought revenge for what happened. He used the reality of problems with Ethiopia’s wells to persuade the country that it was necessary for Italy to return to Ethiopia. After the success of the second Italian invasion, which faced minor opposition from the Ethiopian forces, the leader at the time named Hailie Selassie went into

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