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Mussolini threatns to overthrow italy's government.
...in response the king apponite him prime minister. -
Musslini is apponted prime minister.
He established the world first facist state. -
italy invades Ethiopia
Ethiopia was weak and quckly succomed to the forces taken against them. -
Italy defeats Ethiopia
by captruing the capital city Addis Ababa and forcing the Emperor Haile Selassie to flee to England. -
Italy decalsred war on the United states.
ITlay and Gremany declare war on the united states because the united states had declared was on japan. -
Sicily is invaded!
Sicily was invaded by the alled forces, the Allies took Sicily from the Axis (Italy and Nazi Germany). It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign. -
Operation Baytown
Forces of the British Eighth Army landed in the 'toe' of Italy on 3 September 1943 in Operation Baytown, -
Italy surrenders
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Itlay Agrees to an armistice with the allies
the day the Italian government agreed to an armistice with the Allies. The armistice was publicly announced by Italy on 8 September by two broadcasts, one by Eisenhower and the second by Marshal Badoglio. Although the German forces prepared to defend without Italian assistance, all of their divisions but two opposite the Eighth Army and one at Salerno were tied up disarming the Italian Army. -
Allied advance in Rome
In early October 1943 Adolf Hitler was persuaded by his Army Group Commander in Southern Italy, Field Marshal Kesselring that the defense of Italy should be conducted as far away from Germany as possible. This would make the most of the natural defensive geography of Central Italy whilst denying the Allies the easy capture of a succession of airfields each one being ever closer to Germany. Hitler was also convinced that yielding southern Italy would provide the Allies with a springboard for an i -
Alled advances into northern Italy
In the period from June to August 1944 the Allies advanced beyond Rome taking Florence and closing up on the Gothic Line.
