Theme 4- Italy

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Date/period

Event(s)

Background

Plan or opportunity?

foreign policy before 1934 

Treaty of Rome (1924)

Treaty of Locarno (1925)

Albania

 Libya

Britain, France and Germany

The Four Power Pact

Stresa Front 

The Abyssinian War

The invasion – October 1935

The consequences

The Spanish Civil War

The breakdown of the Stresa Front

Rome-Berlin Axis

Munich conference

Domestic tensions

The Pact of Steel

Italian neutrality, 1939-40

Italy at war – 1940-45

The war economy and military weaknesses

The beginning of the end – 1943 to 1945

Mussolini deposed

The final years

Republic of Salo

The German surrender and Mussolini’s death

 The outcome of the war for Italy

Outcome of the elections of 1946

The move towards Germany (fits in 1939 section)

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