Italy Dates Test

Question 1

Unification of Italy completed

Answer 1

1870

Question 2

Italian Socialist Party founded

Answer 2

1895

Question 3

Conquest of Libya expanded Italian Empire in Africa

Answer 3

1911

Question 4

Universal male suffrage

Answer 4

1912

Question 5

Italy joined WWI on side of Britain and Frace

Answer 5

1915

Question 6

Italy defeated at Battle of Caporetto

Answer 6

1917

Question 7

Italian victory at Vittorio Veneto caused Austria to sue for peace

Answer 7

1918

Question 8

First meeting of Fascist movement

Answer 8

1919

Question 9

Treaty of Versailles failed to award Italy any German colonies

Answer 9

1919

Question 10

Treaty of St Germain with Austria

Answer 10

1919

Question 11

Seizure of Fiume by Nationalist Gabriele D’Annunzio

Answer 11

1919

Question 12

First post-War elections - Socialists become biggest party, Liberals could no longer rule alone, Fascists didn’t win a single seat

Answer 12

1919

Question 13

Occupation of the factories by 400,000 engineering workers

Answer 13

1920

Question 14

Fascist squad violence began

Answer 14

1920

Question 15

Fascists gained 35 seats in general election

Answer 15

1921

Question 16

National Fascist Party organisation created

Answer 16

1921

Question 17

Increasing Fascist violence

Answer 17

1922

Question 18

Abortive Socialist general strike

Answer 18

1922

Question 19

Fascists seized key buildings in northern cities, in the planned ‘March on Rome’

Answer 19

1922

Question 20

Resignation of last Liberal government

Answer 20

1922

Question 21

Mussolini invited to become Prime Minister

Answer 21

1922

Question 22

Mussolini arrived in Rome, Fascists organised victory parade

Answer 22

1922