Politics · Media · 1883–1945
Born: 29 July 1883 · Died: 28 April 1945 · Age at death: 61
Benito Mussolini died aged 61. He was born on 29 July 1883 and died on 28 April 1945.
Founder of Italian Fascism who ruled Italy as dictator from 1922 and allied with Hitler in the Second World War
Did you know?Before rising to power, he worked as a schoolteacher and was once a prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party.
Mussolini invented fascism as a political movement, and his methods became a model that Hitler and others later copied. A former journalist and socialist, he founded the Fascist movement after the First World War and came to power in 1922 after the March on Rome. He built a one-party state, crushed opposition, and used propaganda, mass rallies and the image of himself as a strongman leader. His alliance with Nazi Germany drew Italy into the Second World War, with disastrous results. In 1945 he was captured and executed by Italian partisans while trying to flee.
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was a fascist dictator who was the prime minister of Italy from 1922 until his deposition in 1943. Known as Il Duce during his rule, he established a totalitarian dictatorship led by the National Fascist Party (PNF) in the Kingdom of Italy.
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Italian dictator, born 1883
Benito Mussolini was born in Predappio on 29 July 1883.
He founded Italian Fascism in 1919.
He became Prime Minister after the March on Rome in 1922.
He was executed by partisans in 1945.
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Did you know?He began his career as a socialist journalist.
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