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Mussolini's Birth
Benito Mussolini was born in Predappio, Italy on July 29th, 1883. Alessandro Mussolini, his father, was both a socalist and a blacksmith; while Rose Mussolini, his mother, was a teacher at a Catholic school. -
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Early Years
Following in his mother's footsteps, he started teaching. He became a elementary school teacher in 1901, but left Italy for Switzerland instead in 1903 ro avoid military service. There, he studied and became part of the Italian socalist movement, shortly after he was arrested for spreading propaganda around. -
Military Work
He was released from prison 1905, and was forced to join the Italy military for 2 years. -
Writter
At this time, Mussolini had began writting Socalist Books and had been spreading them around, resulting in his name being spread far and wide. -
World War I
When the first World war happened, the Italy socalist group didn't take any stand in it because they didn't support war, but Mussolini did for his own selfish reasons. -
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Start of a New Goverment
Mussolini spent years and years raising money and gaining a lot of followers. ocne he had enough, he and his group of followers stormed the Prime Minister in Rome. They took over his power and started a new form of Goverment. Mussolini had many support in the begginning, he tried to get more people to place their trust in him by passing laws and making changes that pleased nationalists and liberals. -
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Dictatorship
Mussolini came clean and announced that not all of his dealings have been democractic, since the few people not liking him had been proving he had been doing such. And then in order to spread his beliefs, he began teaching his doctrines in schools to raise people who thought how he did, by taking control of Italian Schools. In about 2-3 years, Mussolini had managed to gain a lot more power by changing laws. By 1927 he had enough power to do whatever he wanted, making Italy into a police state. -
Control
As well as changing a lot of laws to gain power, he managed to take over a lot of Italian buisnesses. By 1939 he managed to take over two-thirds of it. -
World War II
Being strongly influenced by Hitler and admiring him deeply, Mussolini sided with germanyw hen World War II broke out which caused the Allied and America to later come after him. -
Death
The Italians grew horribly unhappy with the way he was ruling, so fired him from ruling on 1942. then the Allied powers got him, but he escaped in 1943. On 1945 he was captured ocne again and shot and killed.
