Benito Mussolini was a fascist dictator of Italy whose greatest accomplishment was starting fascism. He started out as a socialist, but in 1919, he founded the fascist party. In 1922, Mussolini became the prime minister of the country. In 1925, he founded the fascist party. In 1922, Mussolini became the prime minister of the country. In 1925, he announced that the government of Italy was now becoming a dictatorship and he would assume the role of dictator. He began to measure himself as a leader against Adolf Hitler and by 1937 Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany became an unofficial alliance called the Axis. Between 1937 and 1943, mussolini did not prepare his army very well and he became embarrassed at the state of it. Mussolini admitted to his peers that he was the most hated man in Italy due to his failure in his army. On July 25, 1943, King Victor Emmanuel III, who had remained the constitutional head …show more content…
He used propaganda to make his citizens believe in him and to mend his relationship with the catholic church after he tried to convince the country to become atheists. He was a very powerful man who was able to squash the strikes of workers and have them to continue their work. Mussolini was also an intelligent man who had a strategy to make sure that he always got his way. he gave two thirds of the vote to those who were on his side. Mussolini was in some ways a strong leader. Along with his strengths, Mussolini also had many weaknesses. His main weakness was when it came to the economy. Je tried to improve the economy of Italy in many ways, but he did not understand how the economic state work which caused him to fail miserably. He also failed in his attempts at gaining land due to him weakening the army. Along with these failures, he as horrible with foreign relations. Mussolini trusted the Nazis and isolated Italy from the rest of Europe. Mussolini did not understand many things that he needed to in order to be a successful
The general direction of Mussolini’s totalitarian rule possessed
He believed that only a strong leader like himself could defeat conflicts caused by other political parties (especially communists/socialists) and post-war problems (World War I). Mussolini’s first call to action was creating a group called the “Blackshirts” that would carry out beatings against communist leaders and throwing them out of office. People of all different backgrounds joined including teachers, business people, and store owners (Document 5). Mussolini constantly told his people that he was going to restore Italy back to its glorious Roman Empire era. He backed up his sayings by invading Ethiopia.
Q7. The Fascist nations were extremely powerful during their time, along with the strong leadership they provided. Fascism is a political movement which promotes extreme forms of militarism and nationalism. It includes the denial of individual rights and dictatorial one-party rule. Fascism has several characteristics; for example, social, chief examples, basic principles, political, economic, and cultural characteristics.
Benito Mussolini made a huge impact on western civilization, one that would make the books. He not only did he become Italy’s Prime Minister but also the dictator. He also created the birth of fascism, which was a political movement. From having his own political movement he was also in the war and had a role in it. He also was involved in some economic projects.
In his time, alive he had ran for presidency of The Italian Republic which was not very fund of
According to Mr. Kim’s lecture on World War Two, both of these dictators had developed new and advanced war-machinery in order to prepare to gain European ascendancy. Germany and Italy, the two dictator’s home countries, had even allied together to create the Axis powers, Mussolini was able to easily capture Ethiopia, as Ethiopia’s primitive spears were no match against Italian tanks and guns. Although extreme, this was the first conflict in which advanced technology was necessary in order to advance in war. After Hitler grew to power, he began his plans to capture and annex the whole world into the “Third Reich.” After exploiting appeasement too far, Hitler launched a Blitzkrieg, or lightning war against Poland.
While many historical figures have aspired to be as powerful and as influential as Augustus was, almost none have gone quite as far as Mussolini did when he held power as dictator over fascist Italy. Mussolini and his supporters favored a strong Italian identity and directly sought to connect the ideas of “a Roman past and a Fascist present.” In order to do this, he directly imitated Augustus’ manner of exercising power and displaying his greatness. He instituted many changes and public works, and touted his greatness around Italy. He even went as far as to use the same rhetoric found in Augustus’ Res Gestae in the inscription adorning the fountains of the Piazza Augusto Imperatore, which lay across from where the Res Gestae would have originally
Brief Background: My great-grandma, Ruth Trumble, is 87 years old and suffers from minor alzheimer's disease. Her responses to the questions I asked her would sometimes vary and often led to a fair amount of confusion. With the assignment of this project I began to think about the fact that in just a few years time, these personal interviews won’t be possible. With that in mind, I took down my great-grandma's words with the goal of learning about how the war affected her while she is still capable of providing me with the information.
Josef Stalin served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. During World War II became the Party 's leader and absolute ruler of the Soviet Union. Under his leadership, the Soviet Union played a major role in the defeat of Hitler 's Germany during World War II. A couple years into World War II Stalin demanded the immediate assistance of the Allied nations, believing that his nation bore the brunt of the war against Germany. Stalin promotes an image of himself as a great benevolent leader and hero of the Soviet Union.
In 1932, Hitler became chancellor. He introduced an enormous program of military equipment. Hitler opposed democracy. He stated that democracy was “nothing other than the systematic cultivation of human failure” (“Opposition to Parliamentary Democracy”). Fascism in Italy ascended before the Depression began.
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany were similar in that both were dictatorships. Both Mussolini and Hitler came to power through legal means and believed that people were divided into either inferior or superior races. For example, Hitler was obsessed with the Aryan race and called for the genocide of Jews during WWII. In addition, both Mussolini and Hitler favored the wealthy, believed that an individual was meaningless and must submit to the decisions of their leaders, and aimed at self-sufficiency so that each could survive entirely without international trade. Furthermore, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy “had aimed for prestige and power for their countries, and brought instead humiliation and destruction” (Tarr, R.,
Benito Mussolini was an Italian dictator who was born in July 29th 1883 in Predappio, Italy. Mussolini was a disruptive but very intelligent student when he was a kid. He joined the socialist party in 1900. He served in the Italian army, he was considered Italy’s foremost socialist. After becoming editor of a socialist party newspaper he really improved leadership, when he started supporting WWI he got kicked out of that party.
By subduing Libya (1922-1932), pacifying Somalia (1923-1927), conquering Ethiopia (1935-1936), helping the Nationalists win the Spanish civil war (1936-1939), and seizing Albania (April 1939), Mussolini made Italy predominant in the Mediterranean-Red Sea region.” (history) The quotation shows that Mussolini believed he could build his own empire, and his Fascist movement won a lot of wars as well. “Rome comrades! Through you I want to speak to the Italian people, to the authentic, real, great Italian people, who fight with the courage of lions on land, sea and air fronts…
John Locke and John Stuart Mill’s dilemma in swimming to the islands of Fatherland and Bourgeouseville demand them to consider several key elements of each civilization. Each societies attitudes towards A fundamental element for Locke and Mill to consider in their decision, is the core purpose of government on each island, and the impact these different goals have on each civilization. The role of government in Fatherland, which is a Fascist regime, reflects the Fascist emphasis on government involvement in the lives of its people. In Benito Mussolini’s “The Doctrine of Fascism”, he describes the Fascist state as “the highest and most powerful form of personality, is a force, but a spiritual force, which takes over all the forms of moral and intellectual life of a man.” (pg.
History is comprised of so many figures and personalities who have made their mark – positively and negatively. Some people have made such a profound impact that their names become immemorial. Such is the case Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator during the Second World War. His domestic and foreign policies at a time of war and turmoil that followed made him a name worthy of history books, even if these paint him in the negative light. His fascist focus and how he utilized this to manipulate Italians and the world, conveying the message that Italy no longer relies on class warfare and everyone is on an equal footing was appalling and amazing at the same time.