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1922 | Mussolini marches on Rome |
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1924 | Italian Fascists murder Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti |
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1925 | Benito Mussolini becomes the dictator of Italy |
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1925 | Locarno conferences seek to secure European peace by mutual guarantees |
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1928 | Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed in Paris by 65 nations GO ! |
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1929 | Lateran Treaty establishes independent Vatican City |
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1930 | Britain, U.S., Japan, France, and Italy sign naval disarmament treaty |
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1935 | Mussolini invades Ethiopia; League of Nations invokes sanctions |
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1936 | Germans occupy Rhineland, Italy annexes Ethiopia, Rome-Berlin Axis proclaimed (Japan will join in 1940) |
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1936 | Japan and Germany sign anti-Comintern pact; joined by Italy in 1937 |
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1937 | Egypt is admitted to the League of Nations,El Salvador and Italy withdraw |
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1938 | Munich Pact—Britain, France, and Italy agree to let Germany partition Czechoslovakia |
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1939 | 22 May - Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy. |
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1939 | 4 September - New Zealand declares war on Germany |
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1940 | 10 June - Italy declares war on England and France |
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1940 | 18 June - Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich |
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1940 | 24 June - France signs an armistice with Italy |
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1940 | 27 September - Germany, Italy and Japan sign Tripartite (Axis) Pact |
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1943 | Mussolini deposed |
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1943 | 25/26 July - Mussolini and the Fascists overthrown |
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1943 | 23 September - Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government |
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1943 | 3 September - Truce between Allies and Italians |
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1945 | 28 April - Mussolini hanged by Italian partisans |
