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Italy
- Italy after WWI didn't feel like the winners they didn't gain the Land they wanted
- Benito Mussolini
- Catholic - Hater
- Pacifist
- Socialist
- Washington Naval Conference
- 5 Power Pact
- Signed by Great Britain, The US, Japan, France and Italy
- Designed to prevent an arm's race
- It limited the construction of battleships, battle cruisers and air craft carriers
- Didn't restrict cruisers, destroyers or submarines
- 9 Power Pact
- Guaranteed Chinese independence and upheld the Open Door Policy
- Signed by US, Great Britain, Japan, China, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal
- 5 Power Pact
- March on Rome
- A March by Mussolini to gain power of Italy
- Mussolini and the Catholic Church
- In 1929, the Lateran Accords were Signed
- Gave the Vatican specific territories in Rome
- Catholicism became the state religion
- Separation of the church and state was stopped
- In 1929, the Lateran Accords were Signed
- Fascism in Italy
- A government led by a strong dictator
- Stresses strong nationalism, militarism, and imperialism
- Uses intimidation to get what they want
- Battle in Ethiopia
- Battle of Aduwa
- Mussolini wanted to gain Ethiopia to link the the Italian run land on both sides
- League of Nations sanctions began
- Arm Embargo, financial embargo, non-importation of Italian goods
- FDR signed the 1936 Neutrality Act
- Ban on Loans to countries in war
- Mandatory arms embargo with warring nations
- Italy inevitably annexes all Ethiopia later
- League of Nations sanctions began
- Mussolini wanted to gain Ethiopia to link the the Italian run land on both sides
- Battle of Aduwa
- Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War
- Hitler and Mussolini send troops and weapons to help Franco win the civil war against the communists
- This served as an important training ground for Hitler's and Mussolini's troops
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