Italy - Timeline of Italy 1896-1911

Question 1

1896 - Italy ……………. forces at the battle of Adwa

Answer 1

1896 - Italy defeated by Abyssinian forces at the battle of Adwa

Question 2

1896 - Around …% of the Italian population spoke Italian

Answer 2

2%

Question 3

May 1898 - Protests against Italy’s …………………………… leads to ….00 killed in Milan

Answer 3

May 1898 - Protests against Italy’s undemocratic and corrupt political system and economic turmoil leads to 100 killed in Milan

Question 4

1899 - 1910 = Industrial production ……………..

Answer 4

doubled

Question 5

July 1900 - ……………… assassinated

Answer 5

King Umburto I

Question 6

1900 - Radicals and Republicans won only 34 and 28 seats respectively - but they were still considered a threat because….

Answer 6

of their base in the north of Italy

Question 7

1900 - The government ended ………….. to support free trade (but this actually damaged …….. Italy).

Answer 7

1900 - The government ended internal tariffs to support free trade (but this actually damaged southern Italy).

Question 8

1900-11 - There were … governments.

Answer 8

9

Question 9

1907 - government ………………. doubled on public works

Answer 9

expenditure

Question 10

1911- There were over …… strikes in Italy

Answer 10

1500

Question 11

1901-1913 - ………………. Italians left southern Italy each year, in part because of the extreme poverty

Answer 11

1901-1913 - 200,000 Italians left southern Italy each year, in part because of the extreme poverty

Question 12

1911 - …………………………. became Prime Minister on …. separate occasions

Answer 12

1911 - Giovanni Giolitti became Prime Minister on 3 separate occasions

Question 13

1903-11 - Giolitti refused to crush a ……………… in northern Italy which actually fell apart after a few days because of a lack of…..

Answer 13

• general strike
• organisation

Question 14

1904 - Nitti introduced a law to ………………. in Naples.

Answer 14

stimulate industrial growth

Question 15

1905 - …………….. ………….. become PM for one month

Answer 15

Tommaso Tittoni

Question 16

1910- …………………. formed, supporting ………………. as a way to achieve Italian glory through violence and war.

Answer 16

• Italian Nationalist party
• Imperialism

Question 17

1910 - eruption of …………….. had a damaging effect on the…….

Answer 17

• Mount Vesuvius
• Southern Economy

Question 18

1911 - half of Italy’s …. million industrial workers were employed in the northern provinces of Lombardy, Liguria and Piedmont/ Milan Genoa and Turin accounted for …% of industrial income

Answer 18

2.2
55%

Question 19

1910/11 - …………. people died in Naples (in southern Italy) of cholera and half the population were …………. in that area

Answer 19

25,000
illiterate

Question 20

1911 - …………… rates had improved (37.6% illiteracy as opposed to ….% in 1870).

Answer 20

• Literacy
• 69%

Question 21

1912- ……………….. was introduced

Answer 21

Universal manhood suffrage