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Mussolini’s Fascist movement and his seizure of power in 1922 were important steps in the rise of dictatorships in Europe between the two world wars. Mussolini and his supporters were the first to call themselves “Fascists” — revolutionaries determined to create a new totalitarian state based on extreme nationalism and militarism.