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| Question | Answer |
| What did Mussolini talk about doing when he came to power? | Re-establishing old Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Mainly the Balkans |
| What else was his position up to 1936? | Foreign Minister |
| What incident happened in 1923? | The Corfu incident |
| What happened? | Two Italian League of Nations workers were killed |
| Where were they working? | Greek Albanian border |
| What did Mussolini see this as a chance to do? | Move into the Balkans |
| Who did he demand compensation from? | Greece |
| Where did he send his army? Why? | Greek island of Corfu To enforce claim |
| Who backed League of Nations? What was the agreement made? | Britain and France Greeks would pay compensation, if Mussolini withdrew troops |
| What did this show? | Italy was not strong enough to defy great powers when they took a stand |
| What did Mussolini adopt the role of after this incident? | International statesman |
| What did he help to negotiate in? | The Locarno Pact and other international agreements |
| What did the Locarno Pact do? | Mutually guaranteed peace in western Europe |
| What did he oppose in 1934? What did he organise? | Hitler's move against Austria He organised Stresa Front to take a stand against Hitler's expansion plans |
| What was the Abyssinian Crisis | When Mussolini invaded Abyssinia in 1935 |
| What did the Emperor of Abyssinia do? | Appealed to the League |
| What did public opinions force Britain and France to do? | Agree to impose sanctions on Italy in 1936 |
| What did Mussolini do? | Abandon his alliance with Britain and France and move towards Hitler |
| How did Mussolini improve Italian influence in Spain? | He sent 70,000 troops to help Franco (fascist support) during Spanish civil war in July 1936 |
| Who else helped the fascists? What did this mean? | Hitler The two dictators were drawn together |
| What did they sign in October 1936? | The Rome-Berlin Axis |
| What did Mussolini then agree to? | Hitler taking Austria |
| What did Mussolini sign with Hitler in 1939 acting as a peacemaker during the Munich crisis? | The Pact of Steel |
| What was this agreement? | A military alliance |
| When year did Mussolini enter the war? | 1940 |
| Where did the Italians do badly? | Greece |
| Where were the Italians defeated? | Libya, North Africa |
| When did Allies invade the south of Italy? | 1943, after German army was defeated |
| What happened to Mussolini? | He was ousted and replaced by a new Italian government who joined the Allies |
| What did the Germans do? | Rescued Mussolini and set him up with a "puppet state" in north Italy |
| What then happened? | Germans lost and Mussolini was captured and killed by anti-fascist partisans in 1945 |
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