Benito Mussolini Mussolini's rise to power was rapid; his Fascist Party Blackshirts marched into Rome in 1922, a year before Hitler's failed first attempt to seize power, the Munich Beer Hall Putch, landed the German in prison. By the time Hitler became the Leader of Germany, Mussolini had been IL DUCE (Leader) of Italy for more than ten years. He had been successful in improving the Italian economy and bringing stability, as it was said, He made the trains run on time (by shooting someone if they didn't). His ambition was to regain for Italy the prestige and power. Benito Mussolini, is an Axis European political leader. Like Hitler, he served in the First World War as a young man and dreamed of military glory in a Second War to come. Both returned from the First World War to find their countries in political and economic chaos and formed extremist political parties. This led him to a program of militarization. Many Europeans felt that his visible successes in restoring Italy......
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