FP Timeline Flashcards
BM becomes PM
Oct 1922
Italy bombards Corfu
Aug 1923
Italy gains the disputed port of Fiume
Jan 1924
Italy signs the Locarno Treaties, guaranteeing Germany’s western borders
Oct 1925
Italy brings Albania under Italian control as a protectorate
1926
BM encourages Croatian separatists who want to break away from the new Yugoslav state
1927
BM encourages Arab nationalists challenging the French and British Empires
1928
BM encourages Macedonian separatists in Yugoslavia
1929
Italian colony of Libya finally subdued after a 13 year campaign
1932
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Jan 1933
BM proposes 4-Power Pact
July 1933
Italy sends troops to protect Austria from the threat of Nazi takeover
July 1934
Italy attend Stresa Conference to discuss measures against Germany’s rearmament
April 1935
Italy invades Abyssinia
Oct 1935
Italy conquers Abyssinia
May 1936
Italy intervenes, alongside Germany, to help conservative General Franco against the Left in SCW.
July 1936
SCW
July 1936-1939
Italy joins the Axis agreement with Germany
Oct 1936
Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany & Japan, directed at the USSR
Nov 1937
Italy withdraws from the LoN
Dec 1937
BM attends the Munich Conference which prevents war over Nazi claims on Czechoslovakia
Sept 1938
Italy invades Albania
April 1939
Italy & Germany sign the Pact of Steel military alliance
May 1939
Italy stays out of WW2
Sept 1939
Italy declares war on Britain & France
June 1940
Italy invades Egypt & Greece
Sept-Oct 1940
Italy declares war on the USSR
June 1941
Italy declares war on the USA
Dec 1941
Italy suffers major losses in Africa
1942
Southern Italy invaded by Allies
July 1943
BM overthrown
July 1943
Germans take control of N Italy
July 1943
BM becomes the puppet leader of the German satellite Salo Republic in N Italy
July 1943
BM killed by Italian Communist guerrillas
April 1945
