Benito Mussolini was born on July 29‚ 1883 in Predappio. The son of a blacksmith he was largely self-educated. He became a schoolteacher and a socialist journalist in northern Italy. In 1910 he married Rachele Guidi who bore his five children. Mussolini was jailed in 1911 for his opposition to Italy’s war in Libya. Soon after his release in 1912 he became editor of the socialist newspaper in Milan‚ "Avanti!". When WWI began in 1914 Mussolini advocated
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Fundamentally‚ both Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler had the same burning desire to each make their nation a respected and economically impregnable Great Power. Mussolini wanted to return Italy to its glory days of the ancient Roman Empire‚ a domestic policy amongst others which was used as propaganda and to ultimately consolidate his power. A strong economy and a united state were vital for both countries in case of the outbreak of yet another catastrophic war. "Everything in the state‚ nothing
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Benito Mussolini Born in Predappio Forli Italy on July 29th 1883. Died April 28th 1945 in Giulino di Mezzegra Italy at the Age of 61. Slide 2 Benito Mussolini got his name from the Mexican Revolutionary Benito Juarez Benito’s mother Rosa was a elementary school teacher. Early in Benito’s life‚ he looked up to his father Alessandro who was a blacksmith‚ and was actively involved in the local politics. Benito helped his father work as a blacksmith‚ and in doing so‚ he gained many of his father’s
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Timeline of Benito Mussolini’s life. 1883- 29th July‚ Benito was born in Italy 1901- Benito had a difficult childhood and was expelled twice but aced all his exams‚ Mussolini gets a teaching diploma. 1902- became committed socialist and immigrated to Switzerland. Gained reputation as Journalist and Public speaker. 1904- moves back to Italy and goes into the army for the two years of compulsory national service. 1906- Becomes a journalist again‚ gets arrested and imprisoned a
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Benito Mussolini The new state of Italy was far from being a great success in the years before 1914. The First World War left the Italian economy crippled and her treatment by the Treaty of Versailles did not help at all. Between 1919 and 1922 there were five different governments in Italy‚ all of which were useless in taking action to what was needed. Benito Mussolini was born in 1883. Before the start of WW1‚ he had been a socialist journalist. He left the socialist party and started
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Hitler’s ideology and his hatred for the Jews primarily formed his nationalist agenda‚ he had complex ideas about his own race and had no calms when it came to establishing his race as the dominant‚ most superior one. Hitler did not believe that all races were equal and neither was race just a social construct. He wrote about different human characteristics‚ and defined which races according to him were superior or inferior. He called the German people Arians and claimed that they were the master
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influenced Mussolini and Hitler’s ability to gain power. “When government becomes dysfunctional‚ because of runaway spending‚ unsustainable debt‚ a war gone wrong or other crises‚ people often clamor for a strong man to restore order. Mussolini recalled the horrors that led him to seize power: We saw passing before our eyes the dreadful panorama of chaos and of evil forces which had broken into a gallop‚ tragic beyond words to one who loved his country.” Italy’s economic distress allowed Mussolini to position
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Ben Hubbard Thur: 6:30PM Benito Mussolini‚ the founder of Fascism in 1919‚ was the prominent leader of Italy from 19221943. His rule came from the fact that he‚ and the Black Shirts‚ a group of organized jobless war veterans‚ went to Rome when Italy was beginning to fail politically. He talked and created an image that he was the only man fit of restoring Italy. He was finally able to form a government with King Victor Emmanuel’s permission‚ however‚ he slowly began to dismantle the Italian democratic government and
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In a fascist state‚ there is a one party authoritarian dictatorship that attempts to control every aspect of the lives of its citizens. Benito Mussolini and his Fascist National Party were relatively successful in establishing fascism within Italy from 1924 to 1943. With the help of Mussolini’s “secret police” (the OVRA)‚ the Fascist National Party-- the “black shirts”-- controlled the economic‚ political‚ and social aspects of society in Italy. One of the many social aspects that was controlled
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some‚ it’s drugs and alcohol that does this. Dictators‚ it’s power‚ money and control over people. Whenever the word dictator gets thrown around‚ Adolf Hitler always comes to mind. We all have at some stage in our schooling life read about WW2‚ or watched one of the movies related to it. So‚ I’m not going to talk to you today telling you who Hitler was and what he did. Instead‚ I’m going to explore other dictators‚ and why they came to be. Joseph Stalin was a dictator of the Soviet Union from
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