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
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Mussolini rise to power through the use of violence is widely evident as it is summed up in this Mussolini himself ‘for my part‚ I prefer 50 000 votes to 5000 votes’. Alternatively‚ there are also many other factors that shows Mussolini did not depend on violence but however considered it a useful tool. This could be from his foreign policy‚ effort with socialist trade unionist and his effort in gaining political power legally. As Fascism began as a radical socialist movement‚ it was only inevitable
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any alliance." (Denis Mack Smith in ’Mussolini’ - 1981) Background Italian unification was in 1861‚ from this point up until Mussolini came into power in 1922 Italy was ruled by ’parliamentary liberals.’ Liberals had never solved the problems of the economically backward South‚ therefore they were resented there. It can be suggested that the liberal regimes did little to raise the standard of living for the majority of Italians. Mussolini was a ’renegade socialist’ with a strong
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Fascism was born with an ambiguous face‚ surging from socialist ideas developed in a strong nationalistic way‚ embracing monarchy and free-trade; it also had expansionist policies. Mussolini himself was in fact socialist‚ but as his party was not getting as many votes as he expected he shifted to fascism‚ but reluctantly breaking his links with socialism. The rise and the consolidation of power was done in a superficially legal manner‚ but a party led by a dictator needs a harsh rule to stay in power
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increasingly more aggressive and steering towards that of Hitler’s. Prior to his taking of Abyssinia‚ Mussolini’s foreign policy seemed to differ greatly from Hitler’s‚ for example in 1934 Mussolini sent troops to the Italian border with Austria in reaction to Hitler’s attempt to invade Austria. This move indicates that Mussolini was untrusting of Hitler and made a concentrated effort to ensure that Hitler’s position in the region remain largely unchanged. Moreover his joining of the Stresa Front in 1935 along
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Extra Time – didn’t finish It is applicable through a number of factors that Mussolini utilised terror and depended on these measures in order to gain control over Italy. He organised a secret police called the OVRA‚ whereby dissidents were spied upon and severely beaten up as well as often being imprisoned without trial. This created much fear for citizens and opponents‚ leading them to be faithful to Fascism‚ and so Mussolini was able to take control of Italy by asserting terror and punishment. Often
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Social Failure Italian Fascism: Economic Success or Social Failure Benito Mussolini’s development of the National Fascist Party in 1919 (H‚ 2010) provided great hope for a suffering nation of Italian people. Although Fascism grew quickly with an optimism of ending great economic and social turmoil‚ Mussolini’s Fascist ideologies eventually lead to an isolated nation. By further exploring the history of Benito Mussolini and his radical Fascist ideologies‚ it is easy to comprehend the attraction
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that the Italy should enter the World War II. The reasons why Italy should enter the World War II were Benito Mussolini would like to make a strong‚ new Italian state modeled after the ancient Roman Empire,there was a treaty between Italy and Germany and the economy of Italy became worse after World War I. The first reason why I believe that Italy should enter the Would War II was Benito Mussolini
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The word totalitarianism was first used by the Italian philosopher‚ Giovanni Gentile to describe a socio-political system (Pleuger). Totalitarianism is a form of government in which all of society resources are monopolized by the state‚ entering all aspects of public and private life‚ through the states use of propaganda‚ terror‚ and technology(Grobman). Totalitarian societies are very distinct‚ organized‚ and controlled usually by one man who directs the whole economy and unities it under a single
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single party state. Benito Andrea Amilcare Mussolini was born in Predappio (Emilia Romagna)‚ on July 29th 1883‚ the son of Alessandro‚ a socialist blacksmith and Rosa a religion teacher at the local school. In 1914 Benito joined the army and later WW1 to fight for his country. Once the war was over he slowly started to rise to power. Mussolini started to gain power in the 1920s; he got support from upper class people‚ land and factory owners as well as the King. Mussolini believed that the lower
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