Key Words

Question 1

Roman Question

Answer 1

The Roman Question was a dispute regarding the temporal power of the popes as rulers of a civil territory in the context of the Italian Risorgimento, and which ended with the Lateran Pacts between King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Pope Pius XI in 1929.

Question 2

Transformismo

Answer 2

The method of making a flexible centrist coalition of government which isolated the extremes of the left and the right in Italian politics after the unification but which has happened before the rise of Benito Mussolini and Fascism.

Question 3

ANI

Answer 3

Nationalists

Question 4

PSI

Answer 4

Socialists

Question 5

Giolitti

Answer 5

Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman. He was the Prime Minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. He is the second-longest serving Prime Minister in Italian history, after Benito Mussolini.

Question 6

Cadorna

Answer 6

Luigi Cadorna was an Italian Field Marshal, most famous for being the chief of staff of the Italian army during the first part of World War I.

Question 7

Caporetto

Answer 7

The Battle of Caporetto, took place from 24 October to 19 November 1917, near the town of Kobarid, on the Austro-Italian front of World War I. The battle was named after the Italian name of the town.

Question 8

Mussolini

Answer 8

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943

Question 9

What was the triple alliance?

Answer 9

The triple alliance is alliance between Austria, Hungary and Germany

Question 10

Nationalism

Answer 10

An extreme form of patriotism marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries.

Question 11

Risorgimento

Answer 11

The political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century.

Question 12

Anarchism

Answer 12

Belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion.

Question 13

Meridionale

Answer 13

Integration of the South

Question 14

Libya

Answer 14

Country which Italy tried to invade

Question 15

Franchise

Answer 15

An authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, for example acting as an agent for a company’s products.

Question 16

Socialism

Answer 16

A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Question 17

Red Week

Answer 17

The name given to a week of unrest which occurred in June, 1914. Over these seven days, Italy saw widespread rioting and large-scale strikes throughout the Italian provinces of Romagna and the Marche.

Question 18

Irrendentism

Answer 18

Popular movement intended to reclaim and reoccupy a lost homeland.

Question 19

Turati

Answer 19

Filippo Turati was an Italian sociologist, criminologist, poet and Socialist politician.

Question 20

Salandra

Answer 20

Antonio Salandra was a conservative Italian politician who served as the 33rd Prime Minister of Italy between 1914 and 1916. He ensured the entry of Italy in World War I on the side of the Triple Entente to fulfill Italy’s irrendentist claims.