Italy - Timeline of Italy 1896-1911 Flashcards
1896 - Italy ……………. forces at the battle of Adwa
1896 - Italy defeated by Abyssinian forces at the battle of Adwa
1896 - Around …% of the Italian population spoke Italian
2%
May 1898 - Protests against Italy’s …………………………… leads to ….00 killed in Milan
May 1898 - Protests against Italy’s undemocratic and corrupt political system and economic turmoil leads to 100 killed in Milan
1899 - 1910 = Industrial production ……………..
doubled
July 1900 - ……………… assassinated
King Umburto I
1900 - Radicals and Republicans won only 34 and 28 seats respectively - but they were still considered a threat because….
of their base in the north of Italy
1900 - The government ended ………….. to support free trade (but this actually damaged …….. Italy).
1900 - The government ended internal tariffs to support free trade (but this actually damaged southern Italy).
1900-11 - There were … governments.
9
1907 - government ………………. doubled on public works
expenditure
1911- There were over …… strikes in Italy
1500
1901-1913 - ………………. Italians left southern Italy each year, in part because of the extreme poverty
1901-1913 - 200,000 Italians left southern Italy each year, in part because of the extreme poverty
1911 - …………………………. became Prime Minister on …. separate occasions
1911 - Giovanni Giolitti became Prime Minister on 3 separate occasions
1903-11 - Giolitti refused to crush a ……………… in northern Italy which actually fell apart after a few days because of a lack of…..
- general strike
- organisation
1904 - Nitti introduced a law to ………………. in Naples.
stimulate industrial growth
1905 - …………….. ………….. become PM for one month
Tommaso Tittoni
1910- …………………. formed, supporting ………………. as a way to achieve Italian glory through violence and war.
- Italian Nationalist party
- Imperialism
1910 - eruption of …………….. had a damaging effect on the…….
- Mount Vesuvius
- Southern Economy
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
2.2
55%
1910/11 - …………. people died in Naples (in southern Italy) of cholera and half the population were …………. in that area
25,000
illiterate
1911 - …………… rates had improved (37.6% illiteracy as opposed to ….% in 1870).
- Literacy
- 69%
1912- ……………….. was introduced
Universal manhood suffrage
