when did the italian fascists came to power?
World War II
contradiction
 Italian unification of the 1860s incorporated the Papal States , including Rome itself from 1870 , into the Kingdom of Italy , thus ending the papacy 's millennial temporal power . The pope rejected the Italian Law of Guarantees , which granted him special privileges , and to avoid placing himself in visible subjection to the Italian authorities remained a " prisoner in the Vatican " . This stand @-@ off , which was spoken of as the Roman Question , was resolved by the 1929 Lateran Treaties , whereby the Holy See acknowledged Italian sovereignty over the former Papal States and Italy recognised papal sovereignty over Vatican City as a new sovereign and independent state . 

contradiction
 On 25 April 1945 , known as festa della liberazione , the government of Benito Mussolini fell . The Italian Social Republic had existed for slightly more than one and a half years . 

entailment
 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 . 

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

entailment
 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 . 
