Italy in WW1
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- Created on: 13-02-18 19:27
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- Italy in WW1
- Military Stalemate 1915-16
- War between Austria and Italy mainly fought on mountainous boarders
- Conditions in trenches were horrific - soldiers died from cholera and frostbite
- 1916 - 62,000 Italians died during four attempted offences against the Austrians to make advances.
- Nearly 5 million men conscripted into the army
- Soldiers didn't understand orders - didn't know the official languages
- They felt unpatriotic and didn't see what the point of fighting for their country was
- 290,000 soldiers caught for desertion
- Supreme army commander Luigi Codorna was a harsh leader - sentenced people to death for cowadess
- He would randomly shoot soldiers if all of them didn't follow orders correctly - lowered morale
- Defeat at Caporetto
- Austria tried to attack Verona and Bolanga - halted by Italy. Still lowered morale.
- Military and parliament command forced to resign
- Salandra (PM) replaced with Boselli
- After the defeat, Boselli was replaced with Orlando
- Salandra (PM) replaced with Boselli
- Military and parliament command forced to resign
- The battle took place in Caporetto in 1917 - poor leadership and low morale saw them a humiliating defeat
- 200,000 soldiers lost contact with their army, 400,000 vanished (most used it to go home), 10,000 were killed, 30,000 wounded, 300,000 taken prisoner
- One Italian Senator - Franchetti - took his own life because of the defeat
- The army didn't collapse nor did the state, but people now wanted Giolitti to come back as PM
- Cadora was replaced as general with Diaz - focused on boosting moral via tench newspapers
- He lowered death rates from 520,000 in 1917 to 143,000 in 1918
- Austria tried to attack Verona and Bolanga - halted by Italy. Still lowered morale.
- Socialist response to the war
- PSI opposed the war - they would 'neither support nor sabotage the war'
- They were blamed for unpatriotic attitudes in the army
- Their position meant their was greater divisions between the left and the right
- Victory in Vittorio Veneto
- Orlando encouraged Diaz to attack - they split the Austrian army in two and Austria surrendered
- Suffered 650,000 losses and the economy was in turmoil
- Military Stalemate 1915-16
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