Fascist Italy

How Successful Was The Liberal Foreign Policy In Generating Support In Italy?

• 1896 is Italy's nadir (lowest point)
• Must link to issues at home
• Introduction
• Success abroad is good for support at home (domestic)
• A priority in Italy's, but beset with difficulty
• Few resources to spare, powerful rivals
• German Chancellor Bismark
• "Big appetite, little eyes"
• Pressure for foreign policy success
• Government being forced to do something
• General to increase national pride/ support
• Nationalists -> growing belief in Italiante - All things Italian
• "Patriotism"
• This is a small but vocal group in Italy
• They must be appeased
• Nationalists party - ANI; 2nd regime, clamor for action shuts them up!
• Irredentist - unification was incomplete
• Wants Itallia Irredente from Austria (Lombardy and Veneto)
• Futurists; new right with group in early 20th century
• Glorified war, action and violence
• Some liberals (Crispy) Nationalist sympathies with
• C is prepared to take a calculated risk

Case study ; Relationship with France and Austria

•  Italy's land aspiration in Europe lay east
• Yet allies with Austria and Germany
• TRIPLE ALLIANCE ^.-
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