Benito Mussolini and His Impact on World War 2 Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn’t always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Advanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. Benito Mussolini founded the Fasci di Combattimento in March of 1919. His was a nationalistic, anti liberal, an anti socialist movement. This movement attracted mainly the lower middle class. Fascism was spreading across Europe. Mussolini was winning sympathy from King Victor Emmanuel III. Mussolini then threat