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The 64 pages that link to Benito Mussolini, each with the reason it gives.

• Adolf HitlerCompared with: Mussolini’s earlier fascist regime influenced Hitler, while their alliance joined distinct dictatorships.

• FascismRelated: Mussolini organized the first successful fascist movement and regime.

• Cult of personalityRelated: His regime staged him as a forceful embodiment of the Italian nation.

• Francisco FrancoRelated: Mussolini sent troops and material to support Franco's Nationalist forces.

• Munich AgreementRelated: He presented a proposal that supplied the basis for the conference’s settlement.

• Antonio GramsciCompared with: Mussolini’s regime imprisoned Gramsci and embodied the authoritarian politics he opposed.

• Italian fascismBroader topic: He founded the movement’s governing leadership and embodied its personal dictatorship.

• Haile SelassieCompared with: His expansionist regime was Selassie’s principal foreign adversary.

• Interwar periodRelated: His regime made fascist dictatorship a powerful model in interwar Europe.

• Axis powersBroader topic: He made Italy Germany’s principal European partner and later entered the war.

• Lateran TreatyRelated: His government negotiated and signed the agreements with the Holy See.

• Roman QuestionRelated: His government reached the agreement with the papacy in 1929.

• CorporatismRelated: His regime adopted corporatist language and institutions to claim representation beyond party politics.

• Second Italo-Ethiopian WarRelated: His imperial ambitions drove the decision to invade and annex Ethiopia.

• Filippo Tommaso MarinettiRelated: Marinetti’s relationship with Mussolini illuminates Futurism’s entanglement with Fascist politics.

• Italian East AfricaRelated: Mussolini ordered the conquest of Ethiopia and proclaimed the new colonial empire.

• Italian Social RepublicBroader topic: He headed the republic, though German authorities sharply constrained his power.

• Personalist dictatorshipBroader topic: Mussolini’s regime combined a ruling party and mass politics with authority increasingly centered on the Duce.

• Tripartite PactRelated: His government joined the agreement as Germany's European partner.

• Italian colonialismRelated: Mussolini ordered the invasion of Ethiopia and promoted a new empire.

• Italian irredentismRelated: His regime appropriated irredentist language while turning it toward imperial conquest.

• Gabriele D'AnnunzioRelated: Mussolini drew on political spectacle associated with D'Annunzio, while their relationship remained uneasy.

• Roberto RosselliniRelated: His regime built the film institutions and political constraints that preceded Rossellini's postwar career.

• AustrofascismRelated: His government initially backed Austrian independence against Nazi Germany.

• First Vienna AwardRelated: Mussolini’s government joined Germany in deciding the award.

• Locarno TreatiesRelated: Italy joined Britain as a guarantor of Germany’s western borders.

• March on RomeRelated: He orchestrated the pressure campaign but did not lead the squads into Rome.

• Biennio RossoRelated: He exploited anti-socialist fears and postwar violence as Fascism expanded after the unrest.

• Italian invasion of EthiopiaRelated: Mussolini sought conquest to expand Italy’s empire and strengthen his regime.

• Italian occupation of EthiopiaRelated: Mussolini ordered the invasion as part of his imperial expansion.

• SudetenlandRelated: His intervention helped convene the conference that settled the crisis.

• CinecittàRelated: His government backed Cinecittà as part of a state-led expansion of Italian film production.

• Greco-Italian WarRelated: Mussolini ordered the invasion, seeking a military success independent of Germany.

• Pietro BadoglioCompared with: Badoglio replaced Mussolini as prime minister but initially kept the monarchy and state apparatus in place.

• Pope Pius XIRelated: Mussolini negotiated the Lateran Treaty with Pius XI while consolidating fascist rule.

• The CantosRelated: Pound's support for Mussolini exposes the poem's entanglement with fascist politics.

• Albert KesselringRelated: Mussolini’s fall and Italy’s 1943 armistice transformed Kesselring’s mission into occupation and defense.

• Allied invasion of SicilyRelated: The invasion intensified the political crisis that led to his removal from power.

• Oswald MosleyRelated: Mosley sought to emulate Mussolini’s movement and met him while developing British fascism.

• Arthur Seyss-InquartCompared with: Mussolini’s earlier support for Austrian independence contrasted with the later Nazi annexation Seyss-Inquart enabled.

• Errico MalatestaCompared with: Mussolini’s regime imprisoned Malatesta and suppressed the anarchist press and organizations he had built.

• Ioannis MetaxasRelated: Mussolini’s ultimatum and invasion confronted Metaxas with a decisive wartime choice.

• Italian Civil WarRelated: His return to power under German protection gave the Social Republic its leader.

• Victor Emmanuel IIIRelated: Victor Emmanuel appointed him prime minister and later dismissed him.

• Giovanni GiolittiCompared with: Mussolini's rise ended the liberal parliamentary order Giolitti had helped shape.

• Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War IIRelated: Italy’s military ambitions opened several fronts and its 1943 collapse reshaped the theater.

• Galeazzo CianoRelated: Ciano served in Mussolini’s government and later voted to remove him from power.

• Giovanni GentileRelated: Mussolini appointed Gentile to lead education reform and used his ideas to lend intellectual authority to Fascism.

• Vito VolterraCompared with: Volterra’s refusal to swear allegiance to the Fascist regime led to his removal from academic posts.

• Alberto MoraviaRelated: Mussolini’s regime forms the historical backdrop to Moravia’s writing about political conformity.