us_ch8_webquest-axis-italy

=**You chose Italy**= Italy would see change in the early 1920s as Benito Mussolini... ...also known as Il Duce. By 1936, his official title was "//His Excellency Benito Mussolini, Head of Government, Duce of Fascism, and Founder of the Empire."// He became a totalitarian dictator ruling by fear and force and looked to expand Italy's borders. He also began a new ideology, **Fascism**, represented by the Roman fasces symbol, a bundle of sticks tied around an ax representing authority and strength.

Click on the symbol of Fascism to read about the ideology: