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Benito Mussolini

• Benito Mussolini (Italy: 1911-1943)

• Mussolini wanted to recreate the days of the Roman Empire to “make Italy great again”

• Created the system named Fascism (pronounced “fash-ism”

• Named after the symbol of power and discipline, the fasces, which is a bundle of ros with an axe

• Adolf Hitler then modeled his new form of military government in Germany from 1933 after Mussolini’s fascist Italy

• Both leaders used symbols and methods from ancient Rome including the soldiers’ salute, symbol of the eagle on the standard