Unit 2 Term 2

Unit 2 Term[\[a\]](#cmnt1) 2

| Corfu Incident**August 31, 1923** | Diplomatic and military crisis between Greece and Italy. An Italian general heading a commission to resolve a border dispute between Albania and Greece was murdered in Greek territory along with members of his staff. |
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| Locarno Treaty**Dec. 1, 1925** | Agreements by Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy mutually guaranteed peace in western Europe. The treaties were initiated at Locarno, Switz. |
| Pact of Rome 1924 w/ Yugo**January 27, 1924** | An agreement by which Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes agreed that Fiume would be annexed to Italy as the Province of Fiume, while the town of Sušak was assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.Fiume and Sušak would share joint administration of the port facilities. |
| Pact of Friendship 1926 w/ Albania**Nov 27, 1926** | Provided Italian economic aid and was followed by a military alliance in 1927 and finally, a convention (July 1, 1928) declaring Albania a virtual protectorate of Italy |
| Treaty of Friendship 1927 w/ Hungary**March 26, 1941,** | Italy will secretly sell weapons to Hungary |
| Four Powers Act**1933** | Negotiated at the conference enjoined the United States, Japan, Britain, and France to respect each other’s Pacific island dependencies for 10 yearsset limits for battleships at a ratio of five for Great Britain and the United States to three for Japan. An agreement on the fortification of Pacific island bases was intended to assure Japan of security in its home waters. |
| Stresa Front**April 1935** | France, Britain, and Italy formed in April 1935 at Stresa, Italy, to oppose Adolf Hitler’s announced intention to rearm Germany, which violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. |
| Anschluss**12 mars 1938** | Political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938. |
| Abyssinian Crisis**May 9th 1936** | Italy and Mussolini continually ignored the League of Nations and fully annexed Abyssinia.League of the nations was an ineffective |
| League of Nations**10 Janvier 1920** | International organization that resolves international crises through diplomacy |
| Wal-Wal Incident**November 22nd 1934** | Ethiopian force of some 1000 men arrived at the fort at Wal Wal and demanded that the fort be handed over to them. The garrison commander refused. The risk of armed conflict seemed to die down when an Anglo-Ethiopian border commission arrived at the fort the following day. |
| Hoare-Laval Pact**1935** | Secret plan to offer Benito Mussolini most of Ethiopia /Abyssinia in return for a truce in the Italo-Ethiopian War. It was put together by British foreign secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and French premier Pierre Laval, who tried and failed to achieve a rapprochement between France and Italy.drew immediate and widespread denunciation. |
| Rome Berlin Axis**October 25, 1936** | Treaty of friendship between Germany and Italy in 1936. Conforming the end to diplomatic cooperation between Italy, Britain, and France |
| Anti-COMINTERN Pact**Nov. 25, 1936 & Nov. 6, 1937** | agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan, that they would work together to stop the spread of Communism around the globe. This was aimed squarely at the USSR. Germany and Italy had worked well during the Spanish Civil War and had brought about a fascist victory over communism |
| Munich Conference**30 septembre 1938** | Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany. |
| Pact of Steel**22 mai 1939** | Publicly stated that the two countries supported and trusted each otherSecret clauses stated that there would be a union of economic and military policies but were never enacted |

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