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National Parliament declared the various states of the Italian Peninsula as Italy, which was under one ruler, King Victor Emmanuel II.
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Influenced by the aftermath of the Franco-Austrian War.
States voted to join Piedmont-Sardinia with the ultimate goal of unifying the entire Italian peninsula. Piedmont-Sardinia was one of the most powerful states in the Italian Peninsula. -
Ethiopia had 97,000 soldiers, while Italy had only 17,700 soldiers. Menelik secured the Treaty of Addis Ababa in October, which delineated the borders of Eritrea and forced Italy to recognize the independence of Ethiopia.
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The government Incentivized farmers to grow in order to increase their supply so they can have more food which made surer they didn't rely on other countries too much. This resulted in a misallocation of resources which still forced Italy to import.
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Mussolini begins work as Editor for Avanti, the Socialist Party newspaper, in Milan. He started with advocating against violence liberal
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A political confrontation between liberals and the Fascist government of Italy. This ended up sparking the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, a Socialist opposition deputy. This threatened Mussolini but ended up making Mussolini the absolute dictator of Italy.
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Mussolini kicked out of Socialist Party for pro-nationalistic sentiments regarding WWI. He slowly dropped the socialist idea of class struggle and advocated for the involvement of Italians in the war and he showed support for World War I.
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Secret treaty between neutral Italy and the Triple Entente to bring Italy into World War I. Italy was promised Trieste, southern Tyrol, northern Dalmatia, and other territories in return for a pledge to enter the war within a month.
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Although the secret Treaty of London had assigned Fiume to Yugoslavia, the Italians claimed it at the Paris Peace Conference on the principle of self-determination.
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Mussolini formed National Bloc electoral alliance with Giolitti which was the National Bloc a right-wing coalition of political parties in Italy.
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The National Fascist Party was created from Italian nationalism and the desire to restore and expand Italian territories, which Italian Fascists deemed necessary for a nation to assert its superiority.
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Mussolini and the Fascist Party's ascended to power through organized mass demonstration where Fascists used militia squads.
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Gave 66 of the seats in Parliament to the party that received the largest number of votes. This was to give Mussolini's party the majority.
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This was a battle between Greece and Italy which was triggered when an Italian general heading a commission to resolve a border dispute between Albania and Greece was murdered in Greek territory.
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This was the withdrawal of at least 150 left and center deputies from the Italian Chamber of Deputies to show their opposition to the rule of the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
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seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland.
the Allied powers and new states of Central and Eastern Europe wanted to secure the post-war territorial settlement and return normalizing relations with the defeated the Weimar Republic. It also included how Germany would not go to war with another country. -
This was an attempt to raise the claims of Italy becoming a great power, with strong currency, sustainability and stability although it was originally aimed to reduce inflation,
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The Battle for Births was one of four economic battles that took place in Fascist Italy, a fascist regulation that incentivized women to have more kids by saying that if a family has more than 6 kids, they don't have to pay taxes.
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Agreement to outlaw war as a instrument of national policy and promote peace, but it had little effect in stopping the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II. Signed by nearly all nations.
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one of the Lateran Pacts of 1929 between Italy and the Vatican that made the Church more internationally recognized, defying the homefront expectations that Pope power would be diminished.
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agreement that formalized opposition to German rearmament and committed them to work together against Germany. This began to collapse after UK signed the Anglo-German Naval Agreement
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Coalition formed between Italy and Germany promising to support each other in the event of a war and was formalized by the Pact of Steel in 1939. Origin of Axis Powers, followed by a series of agreements between Germany and Italy that developed a mutual relationship between Mussolini and Hilter
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Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex Sudetenland. Hitler previously started rearming Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Italy entered on the Axis side as the defeat of France became apparent. Italy's war declaration had homefront support. They also switched sides because Italy decided that they weren't going to get the territorial spoils that they were promised before.
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the Italian military position quickly spun out of control, especially in North Africa. As the Italian situation worsened, Mussolini lost the confidence of his own party and in his own reign.
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He didn't want to get caught by the US knowing that the communist partisans, who had been fighting some Italian fascist soldiers, would try him as a war criminal, he settled on escape to a neutral country, Switzerland, where he was shot by Italian partisans.
