How Did Benito Mussolini Rise To Power

The rise and fall of power of Benito Mussolini has brought up questions about when and why did this happen to someone so powerful just all of a sudden in that time period? Many people know Mussolini as he was the Italian prime minister for 21 years from 1922 to 1943.

The early life of Mussolini is being the first child from a local blacksmith on July 29 1883. Mussolini’s family was claimed to be less humble. His family was extremely poor, living in a house with two crowded rooms and barely any money to even eat with the rest of his other three siblings. Even though Mussolini was incredibly smart in school as a kid, he was very troublesome. He was disobedient, a bully at school and moody at home. Having a reputation of wanting/becoming a political journalist, the rise to power for Mussolini was falling into his father’s political footsteps. “The King prepared to accept the Fascist alternative, dispatched the telegram for which mussolini had been waiting for” (Hibbert). “By late 1921, The fascists controlled large parts of

Mussolini and Hitler weren’t friends but they weren’t enemies. Mussolini started to have an effect in the war when he heard in 1935; mussolini defied the league of nations but Britain and France failed to act. When more and more years kept going on Mussolini said “ March blindly with the Germans, the Germans might do good business cheaply.”(Hibbert) Meaning by this quote mussolini thought that he had this war in the bag and won since hitler and Germany didn’t have anything. In june When Mussolini knew things were going Hitler’s way is when he knew Italy was going to be in the war. “Hitler and Mussolini have been hostile toward each other; formed rome-berlin axis and Germany signed the anti-comintern pact ”(Ross 25).” They never liked each other but they never hated each