WWI

Question 1

Reasons for neutrality 1914

Answer 1

Alliance w/ German and Austria-Hungary was unattractive to many
Was economically more favourable
Catholics and parties from left were opposed to war

Question 2

Support for intervention

Answer 2

Small, highly vocal nationalist minority

Question 3

Italy declare war

Answer 3

May 1915

Question 4

Italy human cost 1915-17

Answer 4

200,000 men
Only advanced 12 miles

Question 5

Number of people mobilised for war May 1915-Nov 1917

Answer 5

5.7 million
Mostly peasants

Question 6

Numbers lost in Cadorna’s first 2 advances

Answer 6

62,000 killed and 170,000 injured
Sacked hundreds of senior officers
Executed hundreds of own men

Question 7

% of casualties that were infantry soldiers

Answer 7

95%

Question 8

Soldier welfare

Answer 8

Only received 1/2 a lira per day

Question 9

Caporetto

Answer 9

1917
Humiliating
200,000 soldiers lost contact with their regiments

Question 10

Number of casualties in 1917

Answer 10

520,000

Question 11

General Diaz

Answer 11

Replaced Caporetto
Rations improved
Troops given 10 more days leave per year

Question 12

Trench newspapers introduced

Answer 12

1918

Question 13

Casualties in 1918

Answer 13

143,000

Question 14

Vittorio Veneto

Answer 14

1918
Italian army attacked Austro-Hungarian forces and won the battle

Question 15

Casualties over entire war

Answer 15

1.3 million 1915-18

Question 16

Number of planes created in Italy in 1918

Answer 16

6500

Question 17

Vehicle production increase 1914-18

Answer 17

4500 to 25000

Question 18

Budget deficit after war

Answer 18

2.9 billion lire in 1914-15 to 23.3 billion in 1918-19

Question 19

Rise in national debt June 1914 - June 1919

Answer 19

15.7 billion lire to 84.9 billion

Question 20

Italy owed Britain

Answer 20

15 billion lire

Question 21

Italy owed US

Answer 21

8.5 billion lire

Question 22

Socialist response to war

Answer 22

Socialists became more divided
Radicals tried a revolution in Aug 1917
Socialists blamed for every war difficulty

Question 23

Pact of Rome

Answer 23

April 1918
Declared that a unified and independent Yugoslavia was in Italy’s interests

Question 24

Peace Treaty signed w/ Austria

Answer 24

Sept 1919

Question 25

Peace Treaty signed w/ Hungary

Answer 25

1920

Question 26

Peace Treaty signed w/ Yugoslavia

Answer 26

1920

Question 27

Treaty of London

Answer 27

April 1915
Italian mainland extended by 9000 square miles

Question 28

Socialist vote in 1919

Answer 28

31%
Most popular single party

Question 29

Mussolini seats in 1919 elections

Answer 29

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