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Margherita Sarfatti, an Italian Jewish art critic and writer, played a documented role in the early political and cultural development of Benito Mussolini during the rise of fascism in It...
7 April 1939 — Italian forces invade Albania after King Zog rejects Mussolini's demands for greater Italian control. Zog flees the country and Albania is incorporated into the Italian imp...
10 July 1943 — Allied armies land on Sicily in Operation Husky after victory in North Africa. The invasion places direct military pressure on Fascist Italy and demonstrates that the Axis ...
29 October 1922 — King Victor Emmanuel III asks Mussolini to form a government following the March on Rome. Mussolini gradually destroys parliamentary democracy and constructs Europe's fi...
18 November 1935 — League of Nations sanctions against Italy enter into force after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. The measures exclude crucial materials such as oil and do not close t...
8 September 1943 — Italy publicly announces an armistice with the Allies. German forces quickly occupy much of Italy, disarm many Italian units and rescue Mussolini, who becomes head of a...
3 October 1935 — Fascist Italy invades Ethiopia from Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. Mussolini seeks imperial expansion, prestige and revenge for Italy's earlier defeat at Adwa. The Leagu...
28 October 1922 — Fascist squads mobilize around Rome while Benito Mussolini pressures Italy's political establishment for power. King Victor Emmanuel III refuses to authorize full milita...
3 January 1925 — After the crisis surrounding the murder of socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti, Mussolini publicly assumes political responsibility and moves decisively toward dictato...
25 July 1943 — King Victor Emmanuel III dismisses Benito Mussolini after the Fascist Grand Council turns against him. Marshal Pietro Badoglio forms a new government that publicly claims I...
22 May 1939 — Germany and Italy sign a formal political and military alliance. Mussolini's government is not actually prepared for a major European war in 1939, despite the language of th...