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Italian General Elections
<a href='http://www.funfront.net/hist/total/f-italy.htm' > As the government became uncreasingly unpopular, many Italians turned to support the Socialist Party and the Catholic Popular Party. In this elections the Socialist Party won more than one third of all the votes, and the Catholic Popular Party won one fifth of all the votes. -
Italian General Strikes
<a href='http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/turin-workers-general-strike-labor-rights-1920' > Over six hundred thousands workers took over factories and gained controlof towns in northern Italy. -
The Treaty of Rapallo
1920 Treaty of Rapallo Treaty between Italy and Yugoslavia, in which the city of Fiume became a free city under the League of Nations, and Italy gained some land and spheres of influence in Dalmatia. -
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The Battle of Wheat
<'https://quizlet.com/65021090/italian-economy-1922-1940-flash-cards/' > Mussolini decided that Italy needed to become self-sufficient and that a higher production of wheat would achieve that goal. By 1935, they had achieved a reduction of imports by 75 percent, so close to self sufficiency, which was the farmer’s motivation in this battle. -
The March on Rome
<'http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/march_on_rome.htm' > Bennito Mussolini’s National Fascist Party marched to Rome with the hopes of ruling Italy, and King Victor Emmanuel III who encharged of throne gave up his kingdom to Mussolini when he arrived. -
The Corfu Incident
<http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1366776/Corfu-incident' > The general Enrico Tellini, the leader of the commission that was watching the boundaries between Greece and Albania was murdered along with a few of his assistants on Greek land. Italy sent an ultimatum demanding 50 million lire in reparations, and the execution of the assailants. Greece failed to locate the assassins and so Italy invaded Corfu searching for them. -
Aventine Secession
<'http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/45547/Aventine-secession' > The withdrawal by some 150 left and centre deputies from the Italian Chamber of Deputies to show their opposition to the rule of the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. This move occurred at the time of a public reaction against Mussolini caused by the political murder of Giacomo Matteotti. -
The Labor Charter
<'http://users.dickinson.edu/~osborne/myers/mussolini_life.htm'>
It was a charter that expressed the ideas of the Fascist Corporate State. They claimed to bring in both employees and employers into one confederation. This charter stated that workers had a right to good working conditions, equitable wages, and social security. These measures were designed to take the workers' minds off of the loss of the right to strike. -
The Lateran Treaty
Lateran Treaty Treaty between Italy and the Holy See in which three agreements were made. First, full sovereignty of the Holy See in the Vatican City was established. Second, a concordat was created to regulate the Catholic Church and religion in Italy. Third, a financial convention agreed on as a definitive settlement of the claims of the Holy See following the losses of its territories and property. -
The Walwal Incident
<http://www.johndclare.net/league_of_nations6b_ellon.htm' > A garrison of Somalis under Italian control got into a skirmish with Ethiopian armed forces at Walwal. The reasons for the start of the skirmish are sketchy, but nevertheless the incident had occurred.
