Monday:
Talk about movies.
Tuesday:
5 Power Pact
Signed by Great Britain, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy
Designed to prevent an arm's race
It limited the construction of battleships, battle cruisers, and aircraft carriers
Did not restrict cruisers, destroyers of submarines
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Countries pledged not to use war as a way o settle disputes
March on Rome - October 1922
A march by Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party
Mussolini and the Fascists won and took over Italy
King Victor Emmanuel
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 church and state was stopped
Recognition of religious marriages for the first time since 1870
Catholic church was given a lot of money
What did Mussolini get?
Official support from the Catholic Church
Established Fascism in Italy
A government led by a strong dictator
Stresses strong nationalism, militarism, and imperialism
Uses intimidation to get what they want
Ethiopia invaded by Mussolini 1935
Italy lost it's Ethiopia colony in Africa at the 1896 Battle of Adua
In 1935, Italy sends large forces into Ethiopia
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