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Treaty of Versailles
The treay versailles leads them to WWII -
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Bloody Christmas
Bloody Christmas occured in 1920, which is when a number of battles took place in Rijeka, causing the Rijeka campaign to begin under the facist supporter Gabriele D'Annunzio. -
The refomist unions
The reformist unions stopped the conflicts, creating an opportunity for the two black years "Bienno Nero". -
King Victor Emmanuel III
King Victor Emmanuel III named Benito Mussolini the prime minister and gave him one year of dictatorial powers. -
The Corfu Incident
An Italian General was murdered in Greece, so Italy attacked the island of Corfu for revenge. This move decided by Mussolini was a very aggressive one, which gave him a stronger reputation within Italy. This also proved the failure that was the League of Nations, because of their inability to fix problems when a larger power confronted a smaller one. -
The Murder of Matteotti
Matteotti, the leader of the Socialist party, was one of the first ones not scared enough to speak out towards Mussolini, however this cost him his life. -
Dictator of Italy
Mussolini won enough votes to be able to officially declare himself dictator of Italy. This also marked the year that the Battle for Grain took place. Mussolini tried to make the Italian economy a lot stronger, so he decided it should grow wheat. The problem however, was that this meant that vegetables and fruits would no longer be made, even though they are much cheaper and easier to grow. The prices of grain products rose and this caused many other problems throughout the country. -
Supression of opposition parties
The novelist Grazia Deledda is the first Italian woman who is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. -
Lateran Treaty
Lateran Treaty creates state of Vatican City -
Great Depression
The worldwide economic depression arrived in Italy.However, Italy got through the Depression in the 1930’a better than Europe’s industrial power houses simply because it was an agricultural nation. The Depression hit the industrial nations of Europe very hard. -
Ethiopian invasion
one of the most significant events that lead to WWII was when italy invaded Ethiopia in a move to round out its East African holdings and inevitably recalling the Italian defeat in 1896. The ethiopian defense was no match for the italians. -
Civil war aid
Spanish intervention, in which Mussolini aided Francisco Franco in the Civil War. Mussolini announced empire had returned to the fatal hills of Rome. -
Axis Powers
he tripartite pact came about ( "Benito Mussolini."). This act was “based on preventing U.S. entry into the war, by applying the united threat of the three Axis Powers. Second, it was to promote a rapprochement between Japan and the Soviet Union with the help of Germany” ("Japan and the Two World Wars."). -
Italian jewry
Mussolini unleashed his own anti-Semitic blows against Italian Jewry -
Pact- of-steel
Italy formed an alliance with Germany in the Pact-of-steel. -
Hitlers war
Mussolini pushed Italy to war on Hitler’s side.
