Between the Wars Italy

  • Assembly of Corporations

    Assembly of Corporations
    The Grand Council of Fascism abolished the Parliament and then replaced it with the Assembly of Corporations, which consisted of 22 representatives of industrial and private corporations.
  • Paris Peace Conference

    Paris Peace Conference
    The conference held after WW1 regarding setting the peace terms for Germany and other nations.
  • General Strike

    Over 600,000 workers took over factories and gained control of towns in northern Italy.
  • Second General Strike

    Communists and Socialists declared an ill-prepared general strike, of which was stopped easily by fascists and government troops
  • Grand Council of Fascism

    Grand Council of Fascism
    Established as the party body for fascists, and later became the state body of fascists.
  • The Aventine Secession

    The Aventine Secession
    When the Italian Socialist Party left the Chamber of Deputies after the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, who spoke out against the use of force by Mussolini’s fascists during the first meeting of the new Parliament
  • Labor Charter

    police force to arrest political opponents. Labor Charter: A charter that expressed the ideas of the Fascist Corporate State
  • The Lateran Treaty

    Treaty between Italy and the Holy See in which three agreements were made.
  • The Walwal Incident

    The Walwal Incident
    garrison of Somalis under Italian control got into a skirmish with Ethiopian armed forces at Walwal
  • Battle of Wheat

    Battle of Wheat
    Mussolini decided that Italy needed to become self-sufficient and that a higher production of wheat would achieve that goal. By 1935, they had achieved a reduction of imports by 75 percent, so close to self sufficiency.