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600,00 Italians were dead, 950,000 were wounded and 250,000 were crippled for life. The country was hit by inflation and unemployment.
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The treaty that ended World War I. This icture is of the major leaders.
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Name given to the events that led Mussolini's seizure of power on the Italian King.
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Benito Mussolini the Fascist leader is appointed prime minister of Italt by king Victor Emmanuel III
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Italy bombareds and occupies the Greek ISland of Corfu wanting Greece reparations for the murder of an Italian general in Greece.
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Italian troops withdraw after the Conference of Ambassadors. It rules in favore of the Italian demand of reparations from Greece.
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The Fascists win the elections in Italy 2/3 majority.
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Italian Fascists kidnap and kill the socialists leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
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Grazia Deledda wins the first Nobel PRize for Literature.
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Italy and Ethiopia sign the Ialo-Ethiopian Treaty, delaring friendship and cooperation.
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Italy and the Holy See ign the Lateran Treaty, having normal relations between the Vatican and Italy.
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The Lateran Treaty is ratified, making the Vatican City a state.
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Italy concluded in a worldwide state of depression.
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The United Kingdom, United States, France, Italy and Japan sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting naval shipbuilding.
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Mussolini and Hitler signed the Rome-B erlin Axis
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After the invasion of Ethiopia, Italy is expelled from the League of Naions
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From the Spanish intervention, Mussolini aided Francisco Franco in the Civil War
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Mussolini unleashed anti-Semitic blows on the Italian Jewry.
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Enrico Fermi is given the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on Radioactivity.
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Italy made an aliance with Germany.
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Italy enters WWII by invading Greece from Albania. Canada, South Africa, New Zaland and Australia declares War on Italy. Mussolini pushed Italy onto Hitler's side.
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Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi compile the Ventotene Manifesto while confined ont he island of Nentotene by the Fascist regime. It is called, "Towards a FRee and United Europe. With this Spinelli givesa major contributation to the forming of the Federalist thinking. Later it is one of the major figures of the European Parlament.
