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What Factors Enabled Mussolini to come to Power in 1922  

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What Factors Enabled Mussolini to come to Power in 1922 In the early 1920's Benito Mussolini, leader of the Fascist Party, became prime minister of Italy, even though just 1 year previously in a democratic election, the party only got 7% of the votes. I am going to try to explain why the leader of the relatively unpopular Fascist Party became leader of Italy. Italy had joined the Great War of 1914-18 on the 'Allied' side, under the belief that if the allies one, then Italy would gain territory along the Balkan coast and a small part of what was the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However when the war was over Italy were given a fraction of what they had been promised. This infuriated the Italians who had lost hundreds-of-thousands Italian men and had had their economy plummet to an awful state. Italy felt that the liberal government had failed, and many Italians felt...

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