Benito Mussolini Fascist Dictator of Italy 1922-1943 “il Duce”
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Benito MussoliniFascist Dictator of Italy
1922-1943
“il Duce”
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Early Mussolini
• Born in Predappio on July 29, 1883.
• Father was a socialist blacksmith.
• Mother was a teacher.• Married Rachele Guidi
at age 17.• Had 5 children &
became a teacher.
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Early Mussolini
• Arrested for criticizing Italy’s war in Libya in 1911 to 1912.
• After prison, edited the Socialist party newspaper in Milan.
• Expelled from the party for wanting to join the allies in WWI.
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Italy entersThe Great War
1914-1918
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Mussolini in WWI• WWI veteran discharged
for being wounded by a misfired hand grenade.
• Felt Italy was shortchanged after WWI.
• Organized the Fascist party.
• Ruled by fear, with his “Black Shirts” (thugs).
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Mussolini controls Italy• Marched on Rome in 1922.• Appointed Prime Minister by King Victor
Emmanuel III on Oct. 28, 1922.• Attempted to solve political & economic
problems left over after WWI.• Suspended elections & outlawed political
parties.• Established a dictatorship in a totalitarian
state.
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• Oct. 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia or Abyssinia (East Africa).
• Wanted revenge for loss in 1896 at Aduwa. Keeping Ethiopia from being colonized.
• Italian bombers & tanks versus Ethiopian spears.• Ethiopia was a member of the League of Nations
and expected help from Britain & France.• By May 5, 1936 Italy captured capital of Addis
Ababa. The League lifted the minor sanctions & Italy left the League a year later.
Italian Expansion
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Ethiopia
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Benito Mussolini rules Italy!
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April 1945, Milan Mussolini and Clara
Petacci hung by Italian Partisans
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• the daughter of Benito’s third son. Benito was her grandfather!
• a representative in the European Parliament today!• Her Aunt is actress Sophia Loren.• 1983 Playboy model (Germany & Italy), politician, Neo-
fascist. • 1992 elected to Naples constituency (neo-fascist
Movimento Sociale Italiano or MSI). Lost the Mayor of Naples election.
• 2003 she was elected a member of the European Parliament.
• She is anti-Semitic, Anti-Homosexual.• Serves on the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
committee along with two other committees.
Allesandra Mussolini