Timeline of Move to Global War – Italy
1861 Independence from Austria
1870 Incorporation of the papal states into Italy
1899 Establishment of Fiat car company – beginning of industrial economic divisions in Italy
1904 General strike
May 1915 Treaty of London, entered WWI with the Allies
1915 Italy controlled Albania so supplies could reach the Kingdom of Serbia
1915-18 Inflation due to borrowing from British and US banks to fund war effort
Jan 1919 Papacy allowed a Catholic political party to form – the Italian Popular Party (PPI)
Early 1919 Arditi became organised groups across Italy
March 1919 Mussolini combined the nationalists and socialists into the Fascio di Combattimiento
1919 Paris Peace Conference
1919 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) had 200,000 members
1919 Unemployment rose to over two million
Sept 1919 D’Annunzio took over Fiume
Nov 1919 Proportional representation used in elections. No fascist candidates elected
End of 1919 Membership of socialist trade unions was over two million
1919-20 Biennio rosso
1920s Albania became less democratic under President Zog
Aug 1921 Mussolini signed the Pact of Pacification with moderate socialists and the main trade union.
Resigned from the Fascist Central Committee
Sept 1921 Mussolini declared he no longer opposed the monarchy
Oct 1921 Fascio di Combattimiento reformed into the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF). Fascist
National Congress elected Mussolini leader
End of 1921 Fascist Party membership of over 200,000
27 Oct 1922 Fascist squads took over various towns and regions
29 Oct 1922 Mussolini became Prime Minister
1925 Mussolini made himself dictator
1926 Alliance signed between Italy and Albania
1928 President Zog became King Zog I of Albania
1929-32 Great Depression
1931 Mussolini suspended the loan granted to Albania
1933 Mussolini reorganised government, giving himself more power
1934 Stopped Germany’s annexation of Austria
June 1934 Troops landed in Durres, Albania
Dec 1934 Wal-Wal confrontation
1935 Stresa Front
Oct 1935 Italian invasion of Abyssinia
Oct 1935 League of Nations condemned the invasion and voted for economic sanctions
Oct 1935 Rome-Berlin Axis signed
Dec 1935 Refused to participate in the Second London Naval Treaty
Dec 1935 Hoare-Laval Pact
Early 1936 Somaliland, Eritrea and Abyssinia merged into Italian East Africa
May 1936 Left the League of Nations
1936-39 Supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War
Nov 1937 Joined the Anti-Comintern Pact
March 1939 Italy sent demands to Albania
May 1939 Pact of Steel signed
7 April 1939 Invasion of Albania
10 April 1939 Full occupation of Albania, formally annexed
1861 Independence from Austria
1870 Incorporation of the papal states into Italy
1899 Establishment of Fiat car company – beginning of industrial economic divisions in Italy
1904 General strike
May 1915 Treaty of London, entered WWI with the Allies
1915 Italy controlled Albania so supplies could reach the Kingdom of Serbia
1915-18 Inflation due to borrowing from British and US banks to fund war effort
Jan 1919 Papacy allowed a Catholic political party to form – the Italian Popular Party (PPI)
Early 1919 Arditi became organised groups across Italy
March 1919 Mussolini combined the nationalists and socialists into the Fascio di Combattimiento
1919 Paris Peace Conference
1919 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) had 200,000 members
1919 Unemployment rose to over two million
Sept 1919 D’Annunzio took over Fiume
Nov 1919 Proportional representation used in elections. No fascist candidates elected
End of 1919 Membership of socialist trade unions was over two million
1919-20 Biennio rosso
1920s Albania became less democratic under President Zog
Aug 1921 Mussolini signed the Pact of Pacification with moderate socialists and the main trade union.
Resigned from the Fascist Central Committee
Sept 1921 Mussolini declared he no longer opposed the monarchy
Oct 1921 Fascio di Combattimiento reformed into the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF). Fascist
National Congress elected Mussolini leader
End of 1921 Fascist Party membership of over 200,000
27 Oct 1922 Fascist squads took over various towns and regions
29 Oct 1922 Mussolini became Prime Minister
1925 Mussolini made himself dictator
1926 Alliance signed between Italy and Albania
1928 President Zog became King Zog I of Albania
1929-32 Great Depression
1931 Mussolini suspended the loan granted to Albania
1933 Mussolini reorganised government, giving himself more power
1934 Stopped Germany’s annexation of Austria
June 1934 Troops landed in Durres, Albania
Dec 1934 Wal-Wal confrontation
1935 Stresa Front
Oct 1935 Italian invasion of Abyssinia
Oct 1935 League of Nations condemned the invasion and voted for economic sanctions
Oct 1935 Rome-Berlin Axis signed
Dec 1935 Refused to participate in the Second London Naval Treaty
Dec 1935 Hoare-Laval Pact
Early 1936 Somaliland, Eritrea and Abyssinia merged into Italian East Africa
May 1936 Left the League of Nations
1936-39 Supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War
Nov 1937 Joined the Anti-Comintern Pact
March 1939 Italy sent demands to Albania
May 1939 Pact of Steel signed
7 April 1939 Invasion of Albania
10 April 1939 Full occupation of Albania, formally annexed
