Mussolini sought to lessen the friction by means of the Lateran Treaty in 1929. The terms stated that the pope was recognized as the ruler of a Vatican state, a specified area in Rome of less than a square mile. In turn, the pope was expected to recognize the Italian state.
After living in northern Italy until the war’s end in a “Fascist Republic” that he had created on German occupied lands, Mussolini was killed trying to escape in 1945 and his corpse was set on display in the center of Milan.
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Mussolini had neither a specific nor adequate plan in his attempt to create a Fascist Italy. His impact on the country may be seen as remotely positive and slightly effective in that he established a positive relation between church and state.
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During his dictatorship Mussolini’s impact on Italy was in creating a totalitarian state. How can a restricted society be seen as anything of a positive nature?
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Furthermore, Mussolini’s resulting impact on Italy between 1922 and 1945 is extremely detrimental: he left the economy as disheveled as it was when he came into power and he exposed the country to the losing side during World War II.
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But perhaps the only positive impact that he truly had on the country was long term in that Italy must have realized that she would never again want a dictatorship.
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