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Italy and the Peace settlement
• Allies had promised land• Italy did not get all the territories : • Trentino , south of Tyrol, Istria and Trieste• Did not receive any reparations • Italy felt cheated• Frustration : not rewarded fairly for their
effort in the war
Mussolini- Background • Initially socialist: • Editor of Socialist
newspaper• Advocated anarchist ideas• Attacked by socialist party in
1915 : change in beliefs• Fascist party in 1919 • Popularise the fascist
movement ; public speeches
• 1922 : March on Rome
Mussolini – Prime Minister
• 31st of October : King Victor Emmanuel III makes Mussolini Prime Minister of a Coalition governement
• Fascist regime• Left-wing parties were suppressed and in 1929
Italy became a one-party state
Reconciliation with the Vatican
• 1870: Dispute between Papacy and Italian Kingdom
• Mussolini and the Pope : Lateran Agreements on Febuary 1929
• Treaty + Concordat + Financial convention• Ends dispute between governement and the
church • Mussolini gains in power
Foreign Policy • Mussolini wanted to establish a modern Roman
Empire in the Mediterranean • Wanted more territories: to acquire raw materials• Expend the fascist doctrine + show national
greatness • 1923: Corfu incident• 1924: obtained port Fiume ( treaty with
Yugoslavia )• 1926: policy of infiltration into Albania • 1935 : Invasion of Abyssinia
Dependance of the Nazis
• Mussolini declares war
• Adolf Hitler admired Mussolini’s achievements
• 1936 : non-military alliance• Signed : Annexation of
austria + dismemberment of Czechoslovakia + Pact of Steel
• Mussolini in Berlin
Declaration of War
• On June 10, 1940 Mussolini declared war on Britan and France
• Mussolini delays Italy's entry into the war
• 10 June 1940, he joins the Germans and declares war on the Allies
• Alliance seems advantageous. • Mussolini's regime crumbled :
the Italian army suffered defeat in North Africa, and the Allies invaded Sicily in 1943
Censorship and Propaganda • Media controled by Fascist • Newspaper-Radio-Cinema-
Posters-Sport-Culture