Mussolini's March on Rome

Essay # 3283

History > European - 20th Century
History > Leaders
Political Science > Non-U.S.

Analyzes of Mussolini's famous march on Rome.

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Paper Summary:

This paper examines Benito Mussolini's march on Rome not as an attempt to control Italy, but as an intelligently conceived plan which went virtually unscathed which proved to be the greatest victory in Mussolini's political career.

From the Paper:

"Benito Mussolini's triumph of Italian Fascism had just begun in October of 1922 when he received a telegram from General Cittadini: "His Majesty the King asks you to come immediately to Rome for he wishes to offer you the responsibility of forming a Ministry..."1 Previously to this offer, Benito Mussolini had created a party called the Partito Nazionale Fascista (that is, the Fascist party) which was meant to topple the weak Italian government and install a regime of militarism and anti-socialism. Mussolini's followers and sympathizers were mostly young men who had fought in World War I. "