They signed a treaty together with Japan, becoming allied together as the Axis Powers, because they all felt like they got a bad deal following the result of World War I. Mussolini had created a totalitarian government in Italy. He saw Hitler as the idea totalitarian leader. Hitler saw Mussolini as a possibly useful puppet. Before long, Hitler saw Mussolini as completely useless, even as a puppet, and went out of his way to humiliate Mussolini. Mussolini's government collapsed in 1943, and Italy joined the Allies.
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In 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a friendship pact, and promised that they would not fight. But shortly after that Hitler broke the pact.
Mussolini was six years older than Hitler.
Yes. Hitler really admired Mussolini and kept sending him letters and things, but Mussolini didn't really care what Hitler thought of him.
Yes , all three , though Axis allies , pursued their own nationalist agendas .
Hitler influenced Mussolini and could have essentially led to his downfall