Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia
Benito Mussolini ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini[a] (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led Italy as Il Duce from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. He founded fascism in 1919 with the creation of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, which became the National Fascist Party (PNF) in 1921.

Benito Mussolini | Biography, Definition, Facts, Rise, & Death - Britannica
Benito Mussolini, the controversial Italian dictator and founder of fascism, rose to power through his charismatic leadership but ultimately led Italy into disastrous alliances during World War II.

Benito Mussolini: Founder of Fascism - World History Encyclopedia
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) was the founder of fascism and dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He led the country into a highly authoritarian regime and then dragged it into the Second World War (1939-45) on the side of Nazi Germany. Mussolini was captured and shot by Italian partisans in April 1945. Fascism is a complex ideology to define. Fascism's main characteristics include a cult of ...

Benito Mussolini: Children, Death & World War II - HISTORY
Benito Mussolini, an Italian political leader who allied himself with Adolf Hitler during World War II, became the fa...

Benito Mussolini - Fascism, Italy, WW2 | Britannica
Benito Mussolini - Fascism, Italy, WW2: Wounded while serving with the bersaglieri (a corps of sharpshooters), he returned home a convinced antisocialist and a man with a sense of destiny. As early as February 1918, he advocated the emergence of a dictator—“a man who is ruthless and energetic enough to make a clean sweep”—to confront the economic and political crisis then gripping ...

Death of Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia
Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian Fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe. The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan.

Benito Mussolini | Holocaust Encyclopedia
Benito Mussolini was an Italian nationalist and the founder of Italian Fascism. He ruled Italy from 1922–1925 as Prime Minister, and from 1925–1943 as il Duce, the Fascist dictator. Mussolini’s Fascist takeover of Italy was an inspiration and example for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany.

How Mussolini Turned Italy Into a Fascist State | HISTORY
Before becoming one of the most famous fascists of the 20th century, Benito Mussolini was a young socialist, but he split with the movement and then rode a wave of anti-socialist violence to power ...

BBC - History - Historic Figures: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on 29 July 1883 in Predappio in northern central Italy. His father was a blacksmith. Employment prospects in the area were poor so in 1902 Mussolini moved ...

BBC - History - Historic Figures: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Read a short biography about the life of Benito Mussolini - the founder of Fascism and Hitler's WW2 ally.