Why did Benito Mussolini join World War 2?

Answer 1

Mussolini had an alliance with Hitler, who wanted to dominate Europe. Mussolini was also dictator of his country, Italy. Because of this alliance, Italy fought alongside Germany during World War 2
he had agreed with Hitler...one because Hitler knew that he could not concur Italy atm so he made a little agreement...and two he loved to argue with a lot of things and he also knew that this he could not argue with...

Answer 2

Benito Mussolini

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRome-Berlin relationsMain articles: Rome-Berlin Axis and Pact of Steel Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler

The relationship between Mussolini and Adolf Hitler was a contentious one early on. While Hitler cited Mussolini as an influence, Mussolini had little regard for Hitler, especially after the Nazis had assassinated his friend and ally, Engelbert Dollfuss the Austrofascist dictator of Austria in 1933.

With the assassination of Dollfuss, Mussolini attempted to distance himself from Hitler by rejecting much of the racialism (particularly Nordicism and Germanicism) and anti-Semitism espoused by the German radical. Mussolini during this period rejected biological racism, at least in the Nazi sense, and instead emphasized "Italianising" the parts of the Italian Empire he had desired to build. He declared that the ideas of Eugenics and the racially-charged concept of an Aryan nation were not possible.

Mussolini was particularly sensitive to German accusations that the Italians were a mongrelized race. He retaliated by mockingly referring to the Germans' own lack of racial purity on several occasions. When discussing the Nazi decree that the German people must carry a passport with either Aryan or Jewish racial affiliation marked on it, in the summer of 1934, Mussolini wondered how they would designate membership in the "Germanic race":

Answer 3

because Mussolini is fat and has stretchy an*s