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Feb 29, 2016 · The Italo-Abyssinian War (1889-1896) Following the Partition of Africa during the Berlin Conference of 1885, Prime Minister Francesco Crispi of Italy began his nation’s colonization in Africa. Italy focused on the Red Sea because of its trade routes to Asia and East Africa, and subsequently stationed troops in the port of Massawa in Eritrea ...
The Scramble for Africa [a] was the invasion and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914). In 1870, 10% of the continent was formally under European control. By 1914, this figure had risen to almost 90%, with only Liberia and Ethiopia retaining their full sovereignty.
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Jan 22, 2009 · In accordance with the secret Treaty of London of 26 April 1915, Italy entered the First World War in exchange for certain promises made to her by Great Britain and France.
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Sep 29, 2014 · The sixth and final colonial holding of the “least of the Great Powers” was Albania, annexed in 1939. Although not a colony, Italy held a share of the European concession in Tianjin (China) starting in 1901. It lost all its colonial territories in the course of the Second World War, starting in East Africa in 1941, continuing in Libya in ...
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Italy actually acquired a larger African territory than Germany did although unlike Germany her colonies were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy had annexed Eritrea and Somalia, and had wrested control of portions of the Ottoman Empire, including Libya, though it was defeated in its attempt to conquer Ethiopia. The Fas...
The unification of Italy in 1861 brought with it a belief that Italy deserved its own overseas empire, alongside those of the other powers of Europe, and a rekindling of the notion of Mare Nostrum (Our Sea). As in the case of France, this view saw the Mediterranean as an extension of the homeland, and territory in Africa was simply an extension of ...
In 1915, Italy agreed to enter World War I on the side of Britain and France, and in return was guaranteed territory at the Treaty of London (1915), both in Europe and, should Britain and France gain Germany's African possessions, in Africa. However, at the concluding Treaty of Versaillesin 1919, Italy received far less in Europe than had been prom...
In 1922, the leader of the Italian fascist movement, Benito Mussolini, became Prime Minister of Italy after a coup d'état. Mussolini resolved the question of Dodecanese sovereignty at the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which formalized Italian administration of both Libya and the Dodecanese Islands, in return for a payment to Turkey, the successor state ...
Mussolini entered World War II on Hitler's side with plans to enlarge Italy's territorial holdings: he had designs on an area of southern France, Corsica, Malta, Tunisia, part of Algeria, an Atlantic port in Morocco, French Somaliland and British Egypt and Sudan. On June 10, 1940, Mussolini declared war on Britain and France, which had been at war ...
The Italian Empire effectively came to an end by fall 1943. The surrender of Axis forces in Tunisiaon May 7, 1943, led King Victor Emmanuele III to plot the downfall of Mussolini, who was arrested on July 25. The new government began secret negotiations with the Allies, and on the eve of the American landings at Salerno, Italy announced an armistic...
Betts, Raymond. 1975. The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota. ISBN 9780816607624Calvocoressi, Peter, Guy Wint, and R. John Pritchard. 1999. The Penguin History of the Second World War. New York, NY: Penguin. ISBN 9780140285024Fry, Michael G., Erik Goldstein, and Richard Langhorne. 2002. Guide to International Relations and Diplomacy. London, UK & New York, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 9780826473011Killinger, Charles. 2002. The History of Italy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313011238A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-unification to the Present. UC Berkley Press, 2003. Pg.1 ITALIAN COLONIALISM IN AFRICA "8 Italy’s goal to control the Eastern horn of Africa would require a conclusive victory over the Abyssinian Empire, which was ruled by Menelik II in 1896.
Mar 28, 2019 · From 1924 to 1930 he was called back to Italy as General Director of Political Affairs and was later nominated Governor of Eritrea (1930–35). 45 After Libya, the First World War and Albania, De Bono was nominated Governor of Tripolitania from 1925 to 1928 and then Vice-Secretary of the Colonies (1929–1935).
