Chi e mussolini biography

Benito Amilcare Andrea MussoliniKSMOM GCTE (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was an Italianpolitician and journalist who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943.

He also was the leader of the National Fascist Party.

Life

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Early life

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Benito Mussolini was named after Benito Juarez, a Mexican opponent of the political power of the Roman Catholic Church, by his anticlerical (a person who opposes the political interference of the Roman Catholic Church in secular affairs) father.^[1] Mussolini's father was a blacksmith.^[2] Before being involved in politics, Mussolini was a newspaper editor (where he learned all his propaganda skills) and elementary school teacher.^[3]

At first, Mussolini was a socialist, but when he wanted Italy to join the First World War, he was thrown out of the socialist party.

He 'invented' a new ideology, Fascism, much out of Nationalist and Co