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Benito Mussolini was head of the Italian government from 1922 to 1943. He was the founder of fascism, and as a dictator he held absolute power and severely mistreated his citizens and his country. A Fascist dictator, he led Italy into three sucessive wars, the last of which overturned his regime.  __**Mussolini's Three Wars**__ 1. **The worldwide economic depression of 1930** The middle classes gave way to discontent; the working people suffered misery. Mussolini initially reacted with a public works program but soon shifted to foreign adventure. The 1935 Ethiopian War, a classic diversionary exercise, was planned to direct attention away from internal discontent and to the myth of imperial grandeur. The "Italian Empire," Mussolini's creation, was announced in 1936. It pushed his star to new heights. But it also exacted its price. The man of destiny lost his balance, and with it that elementary talent that measures real against acclaimed success. No ruler confuses the two and remains in power long. Mussolini thus began his precipitous slide.  2. **The Spanish intervention** The intervention, followed hard on Ethiopia but returned none of its anticipated gains. Mussolini comporunded this error with a headlong rush into Adolf Hitler's embrace. The Rome-Berlin Axis in 1936 and the Tripartite Pact in 1937 were succeeded by the ill-fated Steel Pact in 1939. Meanwhile, Mussolini's pro-Hitlerism struck internally. Having declared earlier that the racial problem did not exist for Italy, Mussolini in 1938 unleashed his own anti-Semitic blows against Italian Jewry. As the 1930s closed, Mussolini had nearly exhausted all toleration for himself and his regime within Italy.  3. **World War 2** World War II's surprise outbreak in 1939 left Mussolini standing on the margins of world politics, and he saw Hitler redrawing the map of Europe without him. Impelled by the prospect of easy victory, Mussolini determined "to make war at any cost." The cost was clear: modern industry, modern armies, and popular support. Mussolini unfortunately lacked all of these. Nonetheless, in 1940 he pushed a reluctant Italy into war on Hitler's side. He thus ignored the only meaningful lesson of World War I: the United States alone had decided that conflict, and consequently America, not Germany, was the key hegemonic power.
 * Who was the dictator in charge of italy and what were some of his aggresive actions up to the date of 1939?**
 * ~ Benito Mussolini ||

Attack on pearl harbor The reason why the united states went into world war 2,was because of the attack on pearl harbor. In 1941, japan and launched a surprise attack on the U.S. By doing this, the japanese sunk all of the united states biggest war ships. Since our ships had been destroyed, we had no way to defend our selves against the japanese how did the us help out during ww2?

One of the ways that us cities helped out during world war 2 is they rationed. what i mean by rationned is that during world war 2,most of the food that people ate during was limited,meaning each hosehold and/or family could only get so much of that food. by doing this alot of the food that was saved could go to the troops. another way that cities and towns helped during world war 2 was that people with old supplies and metals donated their stuff to the war. when they donated thier metal items,it was send to a factory,which would be turned into different weapons,such as parts to a plane,guns,parts of tanks,etc.

A map of european theaters

During world war 2, there were some different roles played by diferent people in order for the united states to win the war. some of these people were:
 * 1) Dwight Eisenhower was in charge of the of the invasion of normandy,was the supreme allied and he commanded all of the allied forces
 * 2) Georgation overload, he planned the Marshall come up with the plan D-Day.He also came up with operation overlaod, he planned the first time peacetime draft and he coordinated the largest expansion of the U.S. military in history
 * 3) Omar Bradley