Benito_Mussolini

Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini’s Rise and Fall to Power Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn’t always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. Benito Mussolini founded the Fasci di Combattimento on March of 1919. “This was a nationalistic, anti liberal, and anti socialist movement. This movement attracted mainly the lower middle class.”1 Fascism was spreading across Europe. Mussolini was winning sympathy from King Victor Emmanuel III. Mussolini then threatened to march on Rome. This persuaded King Victor Emmanuel III to invite Mussolini to join a coalition, which strongly helped him gain more power. Benito Mussolini brought Austria on Germany's side by a formal alliance. “In 1937, he accepted a German alliance. The name of this alliance was the Anti Comntern Pact. On April 13, 1937 Benito Mussolini annexed Albania. He then told the British ambassador that not even the bribe of France and North Africa would keep him neutral.”2 The British ambassador was appalled and dismayed. On May 28, 1937, Mussolini strongly gave thought mussolini, benito, hitler, italy, war, skorzeny, people, franco, said, october, mussolini’s, greece, british, benito, two, petan, hours, german, after, 1937, very, shot, plane, party, out, northern, minister, might, met, later, king, italian, iii, france, fascist, duce, dictator, day, council, claretta, years, while, way, victor, upset, took, through, soviet, socialist, september, seemed, rome