what kind of government did benito mussolini have?
Dictator
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 Mussolini had ruled Italy as its fascist leader since 1922 ( and as dictator with the title Il Duce from 1925 ) and had taken the country into World War II on the side of Nazi Germany in June 1940 . Following the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 , Mussolini was deposed and put under arrest ; Italy then switched sides and joined the Allies . Later that year , he was rescued from prison in the Gran Sasso raid by German special forces and Hitler installed him as leader of the Italian Social Republic , a German puppet state set up in northern Italy and based at the town of Salò near Lake Garda . By 1944 , the " Salò Republic " , as it came to be called , was threatened not only by the Allies advancing from the south but also internally by Italian anti @-@ fascist partisans , in a brutal conflict that was to become known as the Italian civil war . 

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 Fascism has been prescribed dubious stances on feminism by its practitioners and by women 's groups . Amongst other demands concerning social reform presented in the Fascist manifesto in 1919 was expanding the suffrage to all Italian citizens of age 18 and above , including women ( accomplished only in 1946 , after the defeat of fascism ) and eligibility for all to stand for office from age 25 . This demand was particularly championed by special Fascist women 's auxiliary groups such as the fasci femminilli and only partly realized in 1925 , under pressure from Prime Minister Benito Mussolini 's more conservative coalition partners . 

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 Dictators were not just glorified in fiction . Columbia 's Mussolini Speaks ( 1933 ) was a 76 @-@ minute paean to the Fascist leader , narrated by NBC radio commentator Lowell Thomas . After showing some of the progress Italy has made during Il Duce 's 10 @-@ year reign , Thomas opines , " This is a time when a dictator comes in handy ! " The film was viewed by over 175 @,@ 000 jubilant people during its first two weeks at the cavernous Palace Theater in Albany , New York . 

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 The German Empire was dissolved in the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 , and a democratic government , later known as the Weimar Republic , was created . The interwar period saw strife between supporters of the new republic and hardline opponents on both the right and left . Italy , as an Entente ally , had made some post @-@ war territorial gains ; however , Italian nationalists were angered that the promises made by Britain and France to secure Italian entrance into the war were not fulfilled with the peace settlement . From 1922 to 1925 , the Fascist movement led by Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy with a nationalist , totalitarian , and class collaborationist agenda that abolished representative democracy , repressed socialist , left @-@ wing and liberal forces , and pursued an aggressive expansionist foreign policy aimed at making Italy a world power , promising the creation of a " New Roman Empire " . 

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 On the evening of Mussolini 's capture , Sandro Pertini , the Socialist partisan leader in northern Italy , announced on Radio Milano : 
