Question

why did mussolini align with hitler?

Answer 1

@Joel_the_boss

Answer 2

In 1922 Benito Mussolini made himself master of Italy, and in 1933 Adolf Hitler, having been chosen as chancellor of Germany, became the effective leader of the German people. Poland, Austria, Spain, and some of the Balkans also abandoned parliamentary government. In most of these countries free enterprise was supplanted by socialistic government control, free speech by propaganda. Mussolini and Hitler diverted the resources of their nations to building up military power and flouted international law.

After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Germany and Italy, at first individually and then together, began to upset the political structure that had grown out of World War I. The two dictators regarded their nations as the “have nots,” wronged by the Versailles Treaty. France and England were the “haves,” interested in maintaining the status quo.

As a result of this, Hitler in 1933 announced Germany's withdrawal from the League. He then threw off the restrictions of the peace treaty by rebuilding Germany's army, navy, and air force. Italy followed the German lead in flaunting the authority of the League by invading Ethiopia. As Mussolini's forces, despite League sanctions, neared victory, Hitler in March 1936 sent troops into the Rhineland.


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