2.3 Italian Expansion

Quadripartite Pact is signed

July 15, 1933

Murder of Engelbert Dolfuss

July 25, 1934

Wal Wal Incident occurs

Dec. 5 – 7, 1934

Final Declaration of the Stresa Conference

Apr. 11 – 14, 1935

Anglo-German Naval Agreement is signed

June 18, 1935

Italy launches invasion of Abyssinia

Oct. 3, 1935

Italy captures Adowa

Oct. 6, 1935

Spanish Civil War

1936 – 1939

Mussolini agrees to German rearmament of Rhineland

Feb. 22, 1936

Italy captures Addis Ababa and Selassie flees to Britain

May 5, 1936

Italy annexes Abyssinia

May 9, 1936

Rome-Berlin Axis is signed

Oct. 25, 1936

Italy joins Anti-Comintern Pact

Nov., 1937

Italy leaves the League of Nations

Dec., 1937

Mussolini acts as a “peacemaker” during the Sudetenland Crisis

Sep., 1938

Italian parliament demands annexation of Nice, Corsica, and Tunis

Nov., 1938

Italy invades Albania

Apr. 7, 1939

King Zog is deposed and Albania unites with Italy

Apr. 12, 1939

Pact of Steel is signed

May 22, 1939

Hitler invades Poland, beginning WWII

Sep. 1, 1939

Mussolini joins WWII

June, 1940

Italy launches failed invasion on Greece

Oct. 28, 1940

Germany takes Yugoslavia and Greece

Apr., 1941

German forces pushed British forces back to El Alamein, Egypt

June, 1942