son of a blacksmith he was largely self-educated. He became a

schoolteacher and a socialist journalist in northern Italy. In 1910

he married Rachele Guidi who bore his five children. Mussolini was

jailed in 1911 for his opposition to Italy's war in Libya.

Soon after his release in 1912 he became editor of the

socialist newspaper in Milan, "Avanti!". When WWI began in 1914

Mussolini advocated Italy's entrance into the war on the allied side

and was expelled from the socialist party. He then started his own

newspaper in Milan, Il Popolo d'Italia (The People of Italy) which

later became the origin of the Fascist Movement. In 1916 Mussolini

enlisted in the military. After his promotion to sergeant he was

wounded and in 1917 he returned to his paper.

During the Chaos that Gripped Italy after the war Mussolini's

influence grew swiftly. Mussolini and other war veterans founded

Fasci di Combattimento in March of 1919. This Nationalistic

antisocialist movement attracted much of the lower middle class and

took its name from the Fasces, an ancient symbol of Roman

tried to escape to Switzerland. On April 28, 1945 Mussolini and his

war effort began to have difficulties the Germans became much more

nearly every sector of the populace. Il Duce, as he became known as,

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston

for his resignation and put him in military custody. German's

responsible to the king alone. By 1926 he had passed decrees issuing

Mussolini and Hitler Italian troops occupied all of Greece. Many

of Nations in 1935 by Conquering Ethiopia, which won him acclaim with

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