Benito Mussolini worked as both a schoolteacher and as a journalist in his early years He also fought in World War I. In 1922 he became the Premier of Italy and dictator in 1925. He opposed Catholics, Socialists, and Communists. In 1935 he began to expand the Italian Empire by invading Ethiopia. He supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 joined Germany in the Axis Powers. He invaded Albania, Greece, and North Africa with disastrous effects. He was arrested in 1943, however the Germans freed him and established him as the head of a puppet government. In 1945 he was captured again, but this time he was hanged along with his mistress Clara Petacci.
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