The Rise & Fall of Mussolini

Learn a Language by Watching TV with Lingopie! Start your free trial today: https://learn.lingopie.com/howhistoryworks ------ Sign up for my FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/ ------ #history #ww2history Link To Our Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HowMoneyWorks Written By: Tash & Sam Video Created By: Svibe Multimedia Studio Editor: Cardan Media Gatherer: Andrea Rivas Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images Music Provided By: Epidemic Sound 📩 Business Inquiries ➡️ [email protected] ----- Before his unceremonious end, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was the totalitarian prime minister of Italy, and later the (somewhat unwilling) Duce of the Italian Social Republic… On top of his official titles, he is also infamously remembered by history as the founder of modern fascism, or at the very least the first man to put its ideology into practice on a national scale, inspiring similar movements in Spain, Austria, Croatia, China, the Netherlands, Japan and of course… Germany. Now as students of history you might be thinking that… wait a minute… a lot of these groups ended up fighting one another, but that was a feature of the system as well as a feature of the man himself. By looking at his rise and fall, it remains unclear how much he truly believed in his own ideology, and how much was just political opportunism that fell into place. From relatively humble beginnings he was able to flip flop his way into increasing positions of power and influence by leveraging one talent above all others… He was exceptionally skilled at getting attention, and using it to sow discontent with… well… whatever happened to be convenient at the time…. And conveniently for him at the time… there was a lot to be discontent with in the nation that he would come to rule with an iron fist…