How Did Mussolini Gain Power

However, when he went back to his job he remained in crutches longer than he should have, and used his injuries to his advantage, in order to gain pity from people. One of his many girlfriends had also noticed, that he dressed poorly when speaking to crowds of people, and would then change into better clothes. Mussolini manipulated people in this way, and was able to increase his amount of followers by appealing to the citizens. When Mussolini had fully recovered he set up his own newspaper in Milan called The People of Italy, and received funds from the French. Here he was free to express all his socialist ideas and also his pro-war ideas. He complained that the Paris Peace conference had cheated Italy out of giving them their land. By being an editor of a newspaper, Mussolini learnt the power and effect that propaganda could

He abused the influence that propaganda had, which caused him to gain his position in power and many faithful followers. Mussolini used the fear of a revolution, national glory, suffrage, land for peasants, improvement of workers to his advantage. Despite his various attempts, he failed to win a seat in the election in 1919. Towards the end of 1920 Italy took Mussolini as their leader. A majority of the property class wanted a strong government who could restore power to Italy and fix the economy, which Mussolini promised to do. Mussolini formed the fascist government in 1921, and was able to gain 35 seats out of 355 during the 1921 elections. Between 1921 and 1922 he changed his tactics in order to gain as much power as possible. He became more anti Bolshevik in pursuance of gaining more support from the property class. He also stopped attacking Catholics and the monarchy. Evidently his change of tactics worked since the fascist party grew from 20,000 in 1920 to 248,000 in 1921 and 300,000 in