Emily Jonas 7 th period

 Born on July 29, 1883  Lived in Dovia di Predappio, small town in Italy  Family was middle class and struggled to get by  While in school, he became very disobedient, very violent  Graduated from school and became a teacher

 1904 was when he started pursuing his life in politics  Was a member of the Socialist Party  He also created his own form of socialism, depended heavily on force and personality  1912 he became more appealing when he became the editor of the Socialist Party’s newspaper

 Mussolini opposed the war with Turkey, he encouraged the workers to sabotage and resist  He was later arrested, tried, and sentenced to five months in prison  After leaving prison, he became even more liked by the public  Only four months later he made an appearance at a national congress of the PSI  There, he made a speech, attacking the moderates

 After the PSI conference, he achieved oratorical success at a national level  Congress listened to Mussolini’s proposal, and the four reformists were fired from the party  Him along with others, were elected to be the executive committee

 The fascism was used to describe both Italy and Germany, Hitler and Mussolini  When Hitler came to power, Mussolini was already in the prime of his power  They followed the lead of one another

 Mussolini became the youngest prime minister of Italy in October  He became involved in the war to try to keep Italy safe and to not have to pay for war  He first invaded Ethiopia where he knew they wouldn’t have a chance  Then if he couldn’t reach a peace agreement, Italy had no chance in World War II

 Adolf Hitler tricked Mussolini into joining the German government  He thought it wouldn’t cost much fighting the Germans instead of the Allies  During most of Hitler’s battles, Mussolini usually just stood on the sidelines  Secretly he wished that Germany would loose so that he had some room to breathe

 He attacked Greece and Albania to repay Hitler for everything in the 1940’s  The allies later attacked Sicily, Mussolini knew that soon people in the Fascist Government would turn on him  In July, the Fascist Gran Council dismissed Mussolini from office  He came back the next day, denying any thing about it

 After he was dismissed from office, several months later the Germans rescued him  He then returned to his earlier ideas such as, socialism and collectivization  He executed some of the Fascist leaders, who abandoned him

 In April, before the Allies went to Milan, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci was caught by the Italians  The people who caught him were partisans that he tried to refuge in Switzerland  Later him and his mistress were executed, there bodies were hung upside down in a public place