2.1 Italian Foreign Policy and Fascism

Italy becomes a unified state

1861

Time period of Liberal Italy

1870 – 1923

Italy captures Eritrea

1885

Italy captures Somaliland

1889

Italy fails to capture Abyssinia

1896

Italian Nationalist Association is founded

1910

Italo-Turkish War

1911 – 1912

Treaty of London is signed

Apr. 26, 1915

Mussolini is expelled from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI)

Oct., 1915

Italian loss at Battle of Caporetto

Oct., 1917

Italian victory at Battle of Vittorio Veneto

Oct., 1918

Mussolini establishes the first Fascist units in Italy

Mar., 1919

Treaty of St. Germain is signed

Sep. 10, 1919

Gabriele D’Annunzio seizes Fiume

Sep., 1919

Italian Communist Party is formed

Jan. 21, 1921

Crushing of the Libyan revolt

1922 – 1928

Italian coalition government collapse

Feb., 1922

Socialists and Communists call a general strike

Aug., 1922

March on Rome

Oct. 27, 1922

Mussolini appointed as Prime Minister

Oct. 29, 1922

Mussolini wins a vote of confidence and votes in emergency powers

Nov., 1922

Nationalists join the Fascist Party

Feb., 1923

Acerbo Law is passed

July 21, 1923

Corfu Affair

Aug., 1923

Mussolini backs Albanian leader Ahmed Zog

1924

Pact of Rome is signed

Jan. 27, 1924

Giacomo Matteotti condemns Fascists and is killed 11 days later

May, 1924

Mussolini names himself “Il Duce”

Jan. 3, 1925

Locarno Treaties are signed

Oct., 1925

Mussolini passes Law on Powers of Head of Government

Dec. 24, 1925

Treaty of Friendship between Albania and Italy is signed

1926

Secret police (OVRA) established, trial without jury permitted

Nov., 1926 – Jan., 1927

Treaty of Friendship between Abyssinia and Italy is signed

1928