When the First World War ended, it left the entire Europe in a state of chaos, suffrage and separation. Italy, being a decentralized country of this continent, it became more and more separated as it saw all the destructive societal results of this war. That was when Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator of Italy took over from 1922 to 1943. After making himself leader of the Fascist party that he created at that time, he attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Germany. With his fascist ideals, Mussolini managed to overthrow Italy and turn it into a dictatorship and lead it into the Second World War behind Hitler’s Germany. That occurred because of the country’s internally divided devastated society as well as the weak state of it’s minority governments which could not unite to oppose fascism and finally because of his ability to appeal to this country through a false sense of security and nationalism.
Benito had a miserable young life and that is what motivated him to make his future adult life positive. He had hoped that WWI would lead to a collapse of society that would bring him to power. He knew that he needed to gain the Italians support and he introduced fascism which to the Italians seemed as a symbol of order and strength. This principality is similar to Machiavelli’s because Machiavelli stated that a Prince should look after the well being of his citizens, not because it is moral but because that is the only way he can retain power and that is pretty much what Mussolini did. He pretended to show some sense of morality to his citizens just because he wanted to secure his power. To the Italians this was a symbol of order and strength. It was a great number of them together, which felt stronger than ever before.
He was to the Italians, the ideal leader who would get them out of the Depression and that is why the majority of them followed him with blind faith. Mussolini knew how to make the voting class forget about the...