Many people don’t really know who Benito Mussolini is. What he did. How he became who he was.Many people don’t know about his childhood.Or even how he died.So thats why i took an interest into the topic.In this essay you will learn all about Mussolini's childhood, his rise to power, and how he died.
Benito Mussolini born July 29,1883 in Predappio, Italy. Son of Alessandro Mussolini and Rosa Maltoni. He was the eldest of three with his brother Arnaldo and his sister Edvige. Mussolini was intelligent as a youth but was rowdy and disobedient. His father was a blacksmith and an impassioned socialist. His mother was a catholic teacher. He was impassioned for socialist politics and disobedience by his father. He was expelled from many schools for
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Starting February 1918, he publicly supported the emergence of a dictator to confront the economic and political crisis in Italy. Then in May 1918, Mussolini said he was “ A man who is ruthless and energetic enough to make a clean sweep.” in a speech in Italy , and then the next year a party prepared to support these claims. He made speeches at rallies of “Black Shirts” (Black Shirts were units of the fascist organization founded in Italy March 1919 by Mussolini) . These speeches were usually horrible but his passion and drive to the topic was invigorating. Many Italians, especially among the middle class, welcomed his authority. While Mussolini understood that peace was important to Italy’s well being, that a war might be horrible, and that he must not “march blindly, with the Germans,” he was troubled by concerns that the Germans “might do good business cheaply” and that by not intervening on their side in the war he would lose his “part of the booty.” From the beginning the war went badly for Italy, and Mussolini's opportunistic hopes for a quick victory soon dissolved. France surrendered before there was any way that Italy would win, and Mussolini left for a meeting with Hitler, sadly aware, as Ciano put it, that his opinion had “ Only a consultative