Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the Fascist coup d’état in 1922 to his deposition in 1943. As dictator of Italy and founder of the fascist movement, Mussolini inspired other totalitarian rulers such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, and António de Oliveira Salazar. Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and a journalist at the Avanti! newspaper.
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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the Fascist coup d’état in 1922 to his deposition in 1943, and Duce of Italian Fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919 to his execution in 1945. As dictator of Italy and founder of the fascist movement, Mussolini inspired other totalitarian rulers such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, and António de Oliveira Salazar. Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and a journalist at the Avanti! newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the. Italian Socialist Party, but was expelled from the PSI for advocating military intervention in World War I. In 1914, he founded a new journal, Il Popolo d’Italia, and served in the Royal Italian Army during the war until he was wounded and discharged in 1917. In 1923, he began the \”Pacification of Libya\” and ordered the bombing of Corfu in retaliation for the murder of an Italian general. In 1936, he formed Italian East Africa by merging Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia following the Abyssinian crisis and the Second Italo–Ethiopian War. In 1939, Italian forces occupied Albania, starting the Greco-Italian War. On 10 June 1940, Italy officially entered the war and eventually occupied parts of south-east France, Corsica, and Tunisia. In 1943, Italy suffered major disasters: by February the Red Army had completely destroyed the Italian Army in Russia and in May the Axis collapsed in North Africa despite previous resistance at the second battle of El Alamein.
As a consequence of the Grand Council of Fascism, on July 25, 1925, Fascism passed to a new generation of leaders, including Mussolini and his son Benozzo. The Grand Council passed on 25 July 1925, a new Generation of Fascists, to become the first openly fascist government in the world. In the same year, the Italian parliament passed a law banning strikes and allowing the use of violence by the military. In 1929, Mussetti signed the Lateran Treaty with the Vatican, ending decades of struggle between the Italian state and the Papacy, and recognized the independence of Vatican City. In 1931, he ordered the successful Italian intervention in Spain in favor of Francisco Franco during the Spanish civil war. In 1934, he sent Italian forces into Greece to fight against the Nazis in the Second World War. The Italian invasion of Greece ended in a stalemate that allowed the Germans to by-pass Greek defences and invade the country. In 1938, Italy took part in the Axis occupation of Greece and Yugoslavia. The German invasion of the Union led Mussolini to send an Italian army to Russia, and the Japanese Attack on Italy impelled Italy to declare war on the Soviet Union. In 1941, Italy was not ready for a long war against the superpowers, and Mussolini opted to remain in the conflict against the three superpowers.
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