The Foreign Policies of Mussolini
HIS MAIN GOAL WAS TO "MAKE ITALY GREAT, FEARED AND RESPECTED”
HOW?
HE WANTED TO RESTORE NATIONAL PRIDE
WANTED TO GAIN INTERNATIONAL RESPECT
SIGN PEACE TREATIES
SIGN LATERAN TREATY
ACT AS PEACEMAKER
WANTED TO DEVELOP A COLONIAL EMPIRE
ALBANIA
ABYSSINIA
NORTH AFRICA
GREECE
HOWEVER
ITALY DRAWN CLOSER AND CLOSER TO GERMANY IN THE MID 1930'S
ROME-BERLIN AXIS 1936
BOTH HELPED FRANCO IN SPANISH CIVIL WAR
SIGN PACT OF STEEL 1939
INVOLVEMENT IN WWII
DID NOT JOIN AT FIRST
DECLARED WAR 1940
FOUGHT IN NORTH AFRICA
FOUGHT IN GREECE
TOTAL DISASTER
ALLIES INVADED ITALY 1943
MUSSOLINI REMOVED
PLACED UNDER ARREST
RELEASED BY GERMANS
HEAD OF PUPPET GOVT. NORTHERN ITALY
ALLIES ADVANCED
MUSSOLINI TRIED TO FLEE
CAPTURED
EXECUTED 1945
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