Dates Flashcards
Unification of Italy
1859-70
Mussolini begins journalistic career
1908
Libyan war
1911-12
Mussolini editor of Avanti
1912
Foundation of Fasci di Azione Rivoluzionaria
October 1914
Caporetto - Italian defeat
1918
Fascio di Combattimento founded
March 1919
D’Annunzio seizes Fiume
September 1919
Rise of fascism as mass movement
1920-2
D’Annunzio expelled from Fiume
December 1920
General election , 35 fascists elected
May 1921
Foundation of PNF, fascism becomes a political party
November 1921
Unsuccessful socialist general strike
August 1922
March on Rome , Mussolini becomes Prime Minister
October 1922
Nationalist join PNF
February 1923
Legal and institutional basis of dictatorship created
1925-6
Mussolini announce dictatorship
January 1925
Lateran accords between Italy and papacy
1929
Outbreak of Ethiopian War
October 1935
End of Ethiopian War
May 1936