Italian expansion

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Battle for grain 1924

Imports fell by 75%

Battle for lira 1926

Exports fell

Mussolini Law 1928

Land reclamation failed

Government controlled what % of key companies

20% by 1930s

Corfu Affair failure in

1923

Maintained french hostility through…

Supporting revolts in Morocco & Tunisia

Albania Italian protectorate in

1926

Invasion Abyssinia

1935

SCW mistake

1/3 arms consumed

Annexations from France

Corsica, Nice, Tunis

Invasion Albania

1939

de Felice historian

No large scale expanionist plans & purused policy of pendulum

Why did he join war in 1940?

To avoid humiliation, gain territory, radicalise regime

AJP Taylor

Expansionist goals conflicted against Anschluss

Schreiber

Foreign policy dependent on socio-economic policy

Contradictions to Abyssinian crisis

Suez Canal, Somaliland, US exports

Hoare-Laval Pact

Appeasement plan leaked