Italy (COMPLETE, dates only)

Defeat at Adowa

1896

Conquest in Libya

1911

Treaty of London

1915

‘Mutilated victory’

1919

Seizure of Fiume

1919

First meeting of Fascist movement

1919

Occupation of factories

1920

Beginning of Squadrismo violence

1920

PNF created

1921

General strike against Fascist violence

1922

March on Rome threat

October 1922

Rule by decree allowed

1922

Grand council of Fascism created

1922

Stefani economic policy

1922-25

Acerbo Law

1923

Matteotti Crisis

1924

Ultimatum from Fascist party

1924

Pact of Rome (Ita got Fiume)

1924

Beginning investment in Albania

1924

M speech, intention to make dictatorship

1925

Leggi Fascistissime (ban opp.)

1925

Vidoni Palace Pact

1925

Battle for grain

1925

Dopolavoro set up

1925

Personal dictatorship established

1926

Ministry of Corporations set up

1926

ONB created

1926

Treaty of Tirana (albania satellite)

1926

Revaluation of Lira

1927

Labour charter

1927

Battle for births

1927

OVRA set up

1927

Friendship treaty with Hungary

1927

Battle for land

1928

Purge #1

1928

Frienship treaty Abyssinia

1928

Lateran Agreements

1929

Church dispute over ‘Catholic Action’

1931

IRI created

1933

Quota system introduced (women 10%)

1933

July putsch reaction (troops to border)

1934

Invasion of Abyssinia

October 1935

Hoare-Laval pact (give Ita, Aby)

1935

Easter Accords (I+GB)

1938

Anti-Jewish racial laws

1938

Invasion of Albania

1939

Parliament replaced by chamber of Fasces and Corporations

1939

Non-belligerence in war

1939