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Unification begins in
1860.
The Italian Unification movement was also known as
risorgimento.
King
Umberto
I was assassinated by anarchists due to the death of protestors on the 29th June
1900.
Giolitti
became prime minister in 1903.
PSI formed in
1882.
PSI achieved
216000
votes in the 1900 elections.
Trasformiso
= the use of bribes and manipulation to achieve political goals.
Irredente
= ideology of unifying Italian speaking lands.
Risorgimento
= unifying Italy and the people.
Campanilismo
= ideology of region, city and town over the idea of nation.
The leader of the PSI was
Filippo Turati.
The
Roman question
= the issue of Catholics voting in Italian election due to the Church's influence.
Giolitti introduced the Franchise extension in
1911.
Neutrality is declared on the
3rd August 1914.
Triple alliance
= signed in 1882 between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
Battle of Adwa =
March 1896
,
5000
killed in action.
Invasion of Libya =
29th September 1911.
Salandra
was the leader after Giolitti.
Salandra
and Foreign Minister Sidney Sonnino start secret negotiations with both the alliance and the entente in
1915.
The treaty of London was signed on
April 26th 1915.
250000
members of socialist unions in 1918 and
2 million
by 1920.
On the
23rd March 1919
, Mussolini summoned ex-servicemen to form the
Fasci Di Combattimento.
Trincerocrazia
= soldiers linked by war consciousness.
Squadrismo
= fascists formed themselves into small, military units.
In the beginning of
1921
,
200
people were killed and
1000
wounded as a result of fascist violence against the socialists.