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A photograph of the fascist leader of Italy, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), inspecting troops during the invasion of Abyssinia (1935-6).

The League of Nations was founded in January 1920 to promote world peace and welfare. Created by the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended the First World War (1914-18), the League provided a forum where nations promised to resolve international...

A 1937 photograph of the Foro Italico sports complex in Rome, initially called the 'Foro Mussolini' after Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the leader of Fascist Italy. It was designed in 1927 by architect Enrico Del Debbio, and then inaugurated...

A photograph showing (left to right) Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, respectively. They are about to sign the Munich Agreement of September 1938...

A photograph of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), leader of Fascist Italy, taken during the so-called "battle for wheat", a propaganda campaign launched in 1925 for self-sufficiency in wheat production

The leader of fascist Italy Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) and Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) watch a parade staged in Rome for the German dictator's visit to Italy (6th of May 1938).

Photograph of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the leader of Fascist Italy, visiting Sabratha in Libya in 1926 and meeting local notables.

The Abyssinian leaders Ras Seyum Mangasha (1887-1960), Ras Ghetacciù Abaté, and Ras Kebbedé Guebret, received in Rome by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) on 6 February 1937, swear allegiance after Abyssinia's annexation to the empire.

The Munich Agreement, signed on 30 September 1938 at the Munich Conference attended by the leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, handed over the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany in the hope that this act of appeasement would...

The Anschluss ('fusion') of 12 March 1938 was the annexation and formal union of Austria with Germany. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the Nazi leader of Germany, dreamed of an empire which enclosed all German speakers, his 'Greater Germany'. Hitler's...