WORLD 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: -Growing closeness to Hitler was a kind of fatal embrace for Mussolini. The Duce and the Führer. In June 1940, with German armies running riot all over Europe, the Duce decided to strike. He declared war on France and Britain in June 1940.

Detailed explanation-3: -Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is given responsibility for the occupation of Italy and for disarming the Italian armed forces. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, in charge of central and southern Italy, takes over in Rome and leads the resistance to the Allied landing at Salerno.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mussolini allied with German dictator Adolf Hitler in World War II, and ruled Italy until 1943 when he was voted out of power by his own Grand Council and arrested. After German commandos rescued him, he was placed atop a puppet government in German-occupied northern Italy from September 1943 to April 1945.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mussolini, however, delayed joining Hitler until Nazi troops were just about to defeat France in June 1940. Mussolini then decided to invade Greece. But his army was beaten badly and had to be rescued by German troops. In 1941, he sent 200, 000 of his soldiers to aid Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union.