USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Benito Mussolini was an Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945. Originally a revolutionary socialist and a newspaper journalist and editor, he forged Italy’s violent paramilitary fascist movement in 1919 and declared himself prime minister in 1922.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Benito Mussolini came up with the term fascism, he created the first one-party fascist state and he set the playbook and template for everything that came after, ” Ben-Ghiat says. An important part of that was the cult of personality that emerged around the Italian leader.

Detailed explanation-4: -D’Annunzio in Fiume led one such movement, but the ex-Socialist journalist Benito Mussolini soon became even more prominent, founding his fasci di combattimento (“fighting leagues”), better known as Fascists, in Milan in March 1919.