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After World War 1
600,00 Italians were dead, 950,000 were wounded and 250,000 were crippled for life. The country was hit by inflation and unemployment. -
Treaty of Versilles
The treaty that ended World War I. This icture is of the major leaders. -
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Italy
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Mussolini marches on Rome
Name given to the events that led Mussolini's seizure of power on the Italian King. -
The prime minister of Italy
Benito Mussolini the Fascist leader is appointed prime minister of Italt by king Victor Emmanuel III -
The Corfu Incident
Italy bombareds and occupies the Greek ISland of Corfu wanting Greece reparations for the murder of an Italian general in Greece. -
The Corfu incident ends
Italian troops withdraw after the Conference of Ambassadors. It rules in favore of the Italian demand of reparations from Greece. -
Fascists
The Fascists win the elections in Italy 2/3 majority. -
The kidnap and kill
Italian Fascists kidnap and kill the socialists leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome. -
The first woman is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Grazia Deledda wins the first Nobel PRize for Literature. -
Friendship atlast
Italy and Ethiopia sign the Ialo-Ethiopian Treaty, delaring friendship and cooperation. -
The Lateran Treaty
Italy and the Holy See ign the Lateran Treaty, having normal relations between the Vatican and Italy. -
Ratified
The Lateran Treaty is ratified, making the Vatican City a state. -
Depression
Italy concluded in a worldwide state of depression. -
The London Naval Treaty
The United Kingdom, United States, France, Italy and Japan sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting naval shipbuilding. -
The Rome-Berlin Axis
Mussolini and Hitler signed the Rome-B erlin Axis -
Italy is expelled from the League of Nations.
After the invasion of Ethiopia, Italy is expelled from the League of Naions -
Civil War
From the Spanish intervention, Mussolini aided Francisco Franco in the Civil War -
The Italian Jewry
Mussolini unleashed anti-Semitic blows on the Italian Jewry. -
Enrico won the Nobel Prize
Enrico Fermi is given the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on Radioactivity. -
Pact of Steel
Italy made an aliance with Germany. -
World War II
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. -
"Towards a Free and United Europe"
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.
