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On October
24, 1922, Benito Mussolini, leader of the Fascist party in Italy,
announced at a conference in Naples his intent to seize power by
marching on Rome. Six days later, some 40,000 armed Fascists entered
Rome without resistance and the king appointed Mussolini to the
Italian premiership. Initially the head of a coalition government,
Mussolini gradually transformed himself into the dictator of a
one-party state.
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