CAIRO – 24 March 2022: Benito Mussolini, an Italian warrior of World War I and publisher of socialist newspapers, founded the National Party on March 23, 1919. Named after the Italian peasant revolutionaries, or "fighting guerrillas" of the 19th century, Mussolini's new right-wing organization was known as the Fascist Party and advocated Italian nationalism. Mussolini appealed to Italy's former Western allies for new treaties, but his 1935 invasion of Ethiopia ended all hopes of an alliance with the Western democracies. Two days after the fall of Palermo on July 24, the Fascist Grand Council rejected the policy dictated by Hitler through Mussolini. With the collapse of Germany in April 1945, Mussolini was captured by Italian revolutionaries.
