Throughout the Twentieth Century, Italy has been seen as one of the most indecisive European States. The country has experimented with ideologies, including Liberalism, Fascism as experienced under Mussolini's regime and as today, Democracy. Further indecieveness was shown during the two World Wars, in which Italy was aligned with Britain and France during the First World War, only to change allegiances to Germany in World War II - Italy's entry into this war coming 2 years after the war had started. Italy's darkest period of history and its greatest since the Roman Empire came during the regime of the Fasci de Orgimento or the Fascist regime led by Benito Mussolini.
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The Mussolini regime collapsed in 1943, the country then suffered occupation by Germany in the north and the allies in the South. The leader himself, Mussolini was to become the leader of the Salo Republic before his eventual execution at the hands of Communist guerillas. Italy following the Fascist regime fell back into Liberalism that provided the same ineffecient government that it had done pre-Mussolini.
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