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in italy the spanish flu killed almost 20 mil people and infected 500 mil people

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Like the other warring nations, Italy had borrowed extensively to finance its war effort. In 1919, the Italian national debt was six times its pre-war level, and the lira had depreciated to one-third its pre-war value. To make matters worse, the democratically elected Chamber of Deputies, Italy's primary governing body, was unpaid, and thus prone to corruption and bribery

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In March 1919. The Fascist Party, composed largely of war veterans, was vehemently anti-communist, and advocated the glorification of war, which they claimed displayed the nobility of the Italian soul. The Fascists thought Italy was destined to recapture the glory of Rome.

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1920- Fascists invaded the council chamber, causing mayhem and nine deaths. The council was suspended by the government. Later, Socialist and Catholic deputies were run out of parliament or had their houses destroyed.

1921-In 1921 Fascist and anti-Fascist violence in Italy grew with Italian army officers beginning to assist the Fascists with their violence against communists and socialists. With the Fascist movement growing, anti-fascists of various political allegiances combined into the Arditi del Popolo (People's Militia).

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In the elections of May 1921, 35 fascists, including Mussolini, were elected to the Chamber of Deputies, representing about 250,000 official party members drawn mostly from the lower middle class.

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By the summer of 1922, the Fascist army marched from Naples to Rome, declaring their loyalty to the king, Victor Emmanuel, and to the Roman Catholic Church, and claiming its purpose was to free Italy from the liberal left. The Communists also possessed their own army, and the king feared open violence.

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October 30, 1922. Mussolini used his private army, now turned into a militia, to purge local governments of any opposition to fascism. He consolidated his power under the motto: "All in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." Under this doctrine he ruled Italy with a tight fist during the war years, instituting economic and social reforms, some successful, others unsuccessful

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Italians forming a political boundary were killed by Greeks, making Benito Mussolini order a sea attack on a city named Corfu. Greece told Italy to leave and stop attacking and if they did Greece would pay Italy.

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Elections were held in italy  april 6th 1924  |

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Mussolini talked about his right to higher power and after he became the Prime Minister of Italy.

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Mussolini slowly got rid of almost all constitutional and conventional borders on his power, building a police state.

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Benito Mussolini took Hitler's plans to expand German territories. Mussolini followed this when he invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) the African country on the tip of Africa.