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Benito Mussolini

Published on Mar 25, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

  • He worked in his fathers smithy
  • He was in the Army
  • Right wing conservative, achieved power through electoral process
  • Type of government was Fascism

WHY HE'S THE WORST

  • The march on Rome for the appointment to make a fascist government
  • When he became prime minister his first rules were very right wing
  • The Police State
  • A law passed to upgrade him from President of the Council of Ministers to head of the government
  • Created the National Fascist Party because to him socialism had been a failure to him.

COMPARISONS

  • Sayyid Ali Khamenei
  • He would arrest religious minorities

SECOND COMPARISON

  • Robert Mugabe
  • Similar because he wants to have power
  • Wants to be in charge
  • Follows his own rules

THIRD COMPARISON

  • Hu Jintao
  • Similar because political and religious dissidents were arrested

3 INTERESTING FACTS

  • His mother was a catholic school teacher but he was an atheist
  • He was good friends with Hitler
  • He avoided military but when went he was drafted he became a corporal for merit in war