Ka cika wannan magana: A shekara ta 1935 Mussolini ya yanke shawarar ya kai wa Habasha hari; 'yan Italiya 2,313 da kuma 'yan Habasha 275,000 suka mutu. Yaƙin Italo-Ethiopian na biyu ya haifar da keɓewar Italiya ta duniya, yayin da Faransa da Burtaniya suka yi watsi da amincewarsu da Mussolini. Ƙasar da ta goyi bayan harin Italiya ita ce Nazi Jamus. Bayan da Leagueungiyar Al'ummai ta la'anta shi, Italiya ta yanke shawarar barin Leagueungiyar a ranar 11 ga Disamba 1937 kuma Mussolini ya la'anci Leagueungiyar a matsayin "haikalin da ke girgiza". A wannan lokacin, Mussolini ba shi da wani zaɓi sai dai ya shiga Hitler a siyasar duniya, don haka ya yi watsi da goyon bayansa ga 'yancin kai na Austriya. Hitler ya ci gaba da "Anschluss", haɗewar Austria, a shekara ta 1938. Daga baya Mussolini ya goyi bayan da'awar Jamus a kan Sudetenland, lardin Czechoslovakia wanda yawancin Jamusawa ke zaune, a taron Munich. A shekara ta 1938, a ƙarƙashin rinjayar Hitler, Mussolini ya goyi bayan amincewa da dokokin wariyar launin fata a Italiya. Bayan da Jamus ta haɗu da Czechoslovakia a watan Maris na 1939, Mussolini ya yanke shawarar mamaye Albania don kauce wa zama memba na biyu na Axis. A ranar 7 ga Afrilu, 1939,
Italiya ta mamaye Albania.