Labels:text | screenshot | man | human face OCR: WORLD WAR II LEADERS OVERVIEW HITLER MUSSOLINI AXIS AGGRESSION STALIN ALLIED COMEBACK CHURCHILL LEADERS The face of Italian fascism, Benito Mussolini BENITO MUSSOLINI (1883-1945) The first Fascist leader in Europe, Mussolini was a vain and arrogant dictator. His fierce determination to build DE GAULLE HUMAN COST an Italian empire led him into a series of calamitous and unpopular wars. Forced to resign when the Allies landed in Sicily in July 1943, Mussolini was executed in 1945. ROOSEVELT CHRONOLOGY