Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power
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Benito Mussolini rose in to power very fast. His Fascist Party Blackshirts
marched into Rome in 1922, one year before Hitler's first failed try to
seize power. When Hitler became the Fuehrer (Leader) of Germany, Mussolini
had been "IL DUCE" (Leader) of Italy for more than ten years. Mussolini had
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brutality. In 1935 Mussilini invaded Ethiopia was carried out with a
ruthless disregard for world opinion,including the use of poison gas. When
the British and French leaders condemned him for these acts, he looked
elsewhere for allies and found Germany and Japan.
He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-
1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo
Franco, but being associated with the atrocities of this brutal war lost ....
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