Intervention crisis and Italy in WW1

Question 1

PSI view on joining WW1

Answer 1

against it as that money could go on the people and working class would die. Protests against intervention.

Question 2

Liberal view on WW1 - Salandra supporters

Answer 2

Pro-war so they could gain Austrian land

Question 3

Liberal view on WW1- Giolitti supporters

Answer 3

Neutral or against as they couldn’t defeat Libya

Question 4

Catholic view on WW1

Answer 4

Against it as Austria is also Catholic

Question 5

Nationalist view on WW1

Answer 5

Small but highly vocal minority argued that Italy should have greater imperial aspirations

Question 6

Miltary expenditure - Italy vs Austria - Hungary

Answer 6

1913 - 1914 - £10 million in Italy, £22 million in Austria-Hungary

Question 7

France and Britain offered Italy …… in return

Answer 7

Lands from the Austro-Hungarian empire (e.g Irredente lands of Istria and Trentino)

Question 8

Salandra decided in May 1915 that war was …

Answer 8

Unpopular

Question 9

Treaty of London signed in ….

Answer 9

April 1915

Question 10

Austria enter italy in 1916 leading to …

Answer 10

collapse of government

Question 11

Battle of Caporetto October 1917

Answer 11

200,000 Italians ran away, 300,000 taken prisoner

Question 12

Cost of WW1 to Italy

Answer 12

148 billion lire

Question 13

Problems in first stage of WW1

Answer 13

• Best soldiers in Libya
• General Cadorna pursued strategy of massed infantry attacks on entrenched positions -> 62,000 killed after first 2 advances in 1915

Question 14

Changes under Diaz after 1917

Answer 14

• Rations improved
• Free life insurance for troops
• Trench newspapers introduced in 1918
• Arditi established - carried out attacks behind enemy lines (became heroes)