This administration suggested, with Mussolini's full approval, the creation of some important structures for Italian cinema.

Wilhelm II also praised Mussolini's diplomacy towards the Catholic Church, though he strongly opposed Mussolini's diplomatic agreements with the Soviet Union.

After allying with Mussolini's Italy in the " Pact of Steel " and signing a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, the German dictator Adolf Hitler started the Second World War on 1 September 1939 attacking Poland and following a military build-up throughout the late 1930s.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

Zogu maintained good relations with Benito Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy and supported Italy's foreign policy.

On 31 August, Ribbentrop met with Attolico to tell him that Poland's " rejection " of the " generous " German 16-point peace plan meant that Germany had no interest in Mussolini's offer to call a conference about the status of Danzig.

Black is generally associated with fascist parties, going back to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts, but also with Anarchism.

The persecution of the Jews ended in Southern Italy ( controlled by the Kingdom of Italy ) after the armistice with the Allies ( 8 September 1943 ), while in Central and Northern Italy ( controlled by the Italian Social Republic, a puppet state of Nazi Germany led by Mussolini ) the persecution continued until the definitive fall of Mussolini's regime ( 25 April 1945 ).

In 1928 Nicola Romeo left, with Alfa going broke after defense contracts ended, and at the end of 1932 Alfa Romeo was rescued by Benito Mussolini's government, which then had effective control.

The dominion was formed in 1936 during Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's government in Italy with the defeat of Haile Selassie's Ethiopia in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

While dictator Benito Mussolini's Italian Social Republic ( Repubblica Sociale Italiana, or RSI ) continued to maintain its alliance with Germany until the end of the war, the RSI was never more than a puppet state.

Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini's fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, whom he excoriates in the film as " machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts ".

Mussolini's Grand Fascist Council, with the co-operation of the King, overthrew Mussolini and established a new government headed by Marshal Pietro Badoglio.

As an innocuous example: when Mussolini's regime named the streets of new quarters in Rome with the characters of Virgil's Aeneid, only the name Dido did not appear.

On 24 April 1930, he married Benito Mussolini's daughter Edda Mussolini, with whom he soon left for Shanghai where he served as Italian Consul.

Ciano, having been dismissed from his post by the new government, attempted to find shelter in Madrid, Spain, alongside Edda and their three children ; but their plane was forced to land by the Nazis, with Mussolini's agreement.

Louis ' defeat of Carnera, who symbolized Benito Mussolini's regime in the popular eye, was seen as a victory for the international community, particularly among African Americans, who were sympathetic to Ethiopia, which was undergoing a territorial dispute with Italy.

Zita continued her political lobbying on behalf of the Habsburg family, even sounding out links with Mussolini's Italy.

In 1937, Hugo Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia ( Ethiopia ), joining his father who was working there following the conquest of that country by Benito Mussolini's Italy.

Benito Mussolini's fascist regime turned it into an impressive propaganda machine, with its aircraft, featuring the Italian flag colors across the full span of the undersides of the wings, making numerous record-breaking flights.

Mussolini's coalition government initially pursued economically liberal policies under the direction of liberal finance minister Alberto De Stefani, including balancing the budget through deep cuts to the civil service.

After the Verona trial sentence, a Fascist firing squad, at a shooting range in Verona on 11 January 1944, executed Ciano and others ( including Emilio De Bono and Giovanni Marinelli ) who had voted for Mussolini's ousting.

Mosley, known to his followers as The Leader, modelled his leadership style on Benito Mussolini and the BUF on Mussolini's National Fascist Party in Italy, including an imitation of the Italian Fascists ' black uniforms for members, earning them the nickname " Blackshirts ".

Nogara also invested in Italy's munitions plants and other war industries, including direct loans to Mussolini's government prior to his invasion of Ethiopia in 1935.

The ethos and sometimes the uniform were later copied by others who shared Mussolini's political ideas, including Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, who issued brown shirts to the " Storm Troops " ( Sturmabteilung ) and black uniforms to the " Defense Squad " ( Schutzstaffel, also colloquially known as " Brownshirts ", because they wore black suit-like tunics with brown shirts ), Sir Oswald Mosley in the United Kingdom ( whose British Union of Fascists were also known as the " Blackshirts "), William Dudley Pelley in the United States ( Silver Legion of America or " Silver Shirts "), in Mexico the Camisas Doradas or " Golden Shirts ", Plínio Salgado in Brazil ( whose followers wore green shirts ), and Eoin O ' Duffy in the Irish Free State ( Army Comrades Association or " Blueshirts ").

He distributed copies of a fascist tract called " The Corporate State " by one of Mussolini's favorite economists, including giving one to Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and asking her give copies to her cabinet.

After World War II and the overthrow of Mussolini's fascist regime, Italy's history was dominated by the Christian Democracy ( Democrazia Cristiana, DC ) political party for 50 years, while the opposition was led by the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ); this situation prevailed until the crisis of the Soviet Union and the Tangentopoli scandal and operation Mani pulite, which led to the reform of the electoral system ( from almost perfect proportional to uninominal / multi-seat circumscriptions ) and radical restructuring of the Italian political system, including the dissolution of most traditional political parties.

The Italian Foreign Minister and Benito Mussolini's son in law Count Ciano's informants said of Aimone " The Duke doesn't give a damn about Croatia and wants only money, money and more money.

At least they hadn't stepped up and asked to see papers in the hated, flat, dialect mispronunciation of Mussolini's home district -- Dogumenti, per favore.

On the following day, 29 April, Mussolini's and Petacci's bodies were taken to the Piazzale Loreto in Milan and hung upside down in front of a petrol station.

Daggers achieved public notoriety in the 20th century as ornamental uniform regalia during the Fascist dictatorships of Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany.

Benito Mussolini's rise to power in Italy in 1922 brought profound changes to the colonial government in Eritrea.

In August 1933, Mussolini's government issued a guarantee of Austrian independence.

Mussolini's foreign minister and son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano persuaded Mussolini not to make this statement.

The term " Fascism " was first used in 1915 by members of Mussolini's movement, the Fasci of Revolutionary Action.

The war became prolonged contrary to Mussolini's plans resulting in Italy losing battles on multiple fronts and requiring German assistance.

Mussolini's Doctrine of Fascism states, " The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing ; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.

It was taken from Ethiopia by Benito Mussolini's troops in 1937 as a war chest, and returned on 18 April 2005.

Fellini and Giulietta hid in her aunt ’ s apartment until Mussolini's fall on July 25, 1943.

On 13 September 1940, Mussolini's highway was used for the invasion of Egypt by Italian forces stationed in Libya.

Patterning itself after Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy, Metaxas ' regime promoted various concepts such as the " Third Hellenic Civilization ", the Roman salute, a national youth organization, and introduced measures to gain popular support, such as the Greek Social Insurance Institute ( IKA ), still the biggest social security institution in Greece.

Despite this declared neutrality, Greece became a target for Mussolini's expansionist policies.

Zogu, however, quickly turned his back on Belgrade and looked instead to Benito Mussolini's Italy for patronage.

Mussolini's forces overthrew King Zog when Italy invaded Albania in 1939.

Mussolini and the Italian Fascists saw Albania as a historical part of the Roman Empire, and the occupation was intended to fulfill Mussolini's dream of creating an Italian Empire.

On 7 April Mussolini's troops invaded Albania.