Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn't always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. Benito Mussolini founded the "Fasci di Combattimento" on March of 1919. "This was a nationalistic, anti liberal, and …showed first 75 words of 2058 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2058 total…in front of a garage in Milan's Puzzle Laureate. A crowd gathered around; some people shouted foul language, others just stood there and laughed. One woman fired a pistol at Mussolini five times to "avenge her five dead sons." Eventually, the two mutilated bodies were strung upside down for everyone to see. For hours the crowd laughed and spit at Mussolini's body. On the following day he was buried in the family tomb in Predappo.