Italy's foreign policy 1919-1940
Category: Outro
Atualizado: 27 fev 2018
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Created byAnna Ahlbäck
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Mussolini becomes prime minister
-Advocates war and imperialismItaly shells Corfu
-Military officers assassinated
- Greece forced to pay indemnity
-Conference of Ambassadors decidedYugoslavia gives Fiume to Italy
- Yugoslavia was weak and
didn't want to be bombedGreat Depression hits
- Italy trades more with Eastern European states
since the West erected trade barriers
- Italy doesn't need to be afraid of economic
sanctionsPlanning for invasion of Abyssinia begins
- worst point of Depression for ItalyAustrian Nazis assassinate Engelbert Dollfuss
- Mussolini moves troops to Austrian border
- Threat to GermanyStresa Front
- Britain, France and Italy form front against Germany
- In response to German rearmament
- Britain and France sign naval treaty showing
that Stresa front isn't unitedWal-Wal incident
- Italian and Abyssinian troops clash
- Italy demands apology and indemnity
- Abyssinia appeals to LoN's
- Italian army already preparing to invadeInvasion of Abyssinia
- Italy crushes Abyssinian forces
- Aerial bombing and poison gas lead to death
of hundreds of thousandsItalian East Africa founded
- Italian Somaliland, Eritrea and AbyssiniaItaly withdraws from League of Nations
- In protest to Haile Selassie speakingItaly refuses to participate in
London Naval Treaty conference
- Diplomatically isolated because
of Abyssinian annexation
- Stresa Front collapsesRome-Berlin Axis
- treaty of friendship between Germany
and ItalyItaly signs alliance with Albania
- Albania essentially becomes a
military protectorate of ItalyItaly lands troops in Durrës in Albania
- Demanded that Albania allow military
advisors back into their militaryItaly sends ultimatum to Albania and demands:
- Italian troops be garrisoned in Albania
- Albania grants land to Italians
- Government contains Italian representativeOccupation of Albania
- Albania becomes annexed to ItalyPact of Steel
- formal military alliance between
Germany and ItalyItaly declares war on France
as part of WWIIJoined Anti-Comintern PactLocarno pact
- Britain, France, Germany, Belgium
- Germany's borders were formalized
- Started process of reconciliation between
Great PowersTri-partite pact
- Military pact between Japan,
Italy and Germany
- Promised not interfere with
plans of expansionPeríodos
Italy involved in Spain
- supporting Franco with troops and weapons
- wanted France to get involved so Italy could take Corsica
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