MtGW: Italy - Years

Initial Unification of Italy

1861

Total Unification of Italy (Rome and Papal States incorporated)

1870

Treaty of Versailles

1919, post-WWI settlements

Fiume Affair

1919, paramilitary occupation of the Fiume Port

March on Rome

1922, fabricated story of how Mussolini rose to power

Mussolini became Prime Minister

1922

Acerbo Law

1923, law that gave winning election party 2/3 of government seats

Murder of Matteoti

1924

Mussolini had officially turned Italy into a dictatorship

1925

Corfu Affair

1923, Mussolini’s invasion of the Greek island of Corfu

Battle for Grain

1925, campaign to increase wheat production

Battle for the Lira

1926, campaign to raise the value of the lira

Batlle for Land/Mussolini Law

1928, aimed to turn marshland into farmland

Friendship treaty between Italy and Albania

1926, made Albania and Italian protectorate

Locarno Treaty

1925, aimed to normalise relations with Germany

Kellogg-Briand Pact

1928, stated that war should not be used to solve disagreements

Stresa Front

1934, anti-German pact

Invasion of Abyssinia

1936

Intervention in the Spanish Civil War

1936

Rome-Berlin Axis

1936, friendly alliance between Italy and Germany

Anti-Comintern Pact

1937, anti-communist pact

Italy left the League of Nations

1937

Invasion of Albania

1939

Pact of Steel

1939, military alliance between Italy and Germany

Outbreak of WWII

1939

Italy joined WWII and the Axis Powers

1940