Story behind Mussolini's foreign adventurism

1. To resolve economic problems -> conquest new territory
Expansion was justified by the Darwinian struggle between nations, and by the
need for Italy to find living space for surplus population.

2. The rise of Hitler made it possible for Italy, insufficiently strong on
its own, to revise the Versailles Treaty. At first Mussolini was wary of
German expansionism, for Italy included German-speaking
minorities which it was feared might come into Hitler’s sights
should he succeed in annexing Austria to the Reich. Soon, however,
it became clear that German military strength on the Continent was
so great that the only way to expand Italian power was in alliance
with Hitler and at the expense of British and French interests in the
Mediterranean and Africa.

3.Italian armies invaded Abyssinia(ethiopia) in 1935, fought on the side of Franco’s right-wing alliance in the Spanish Civil War in 1936–9, and occupied Albania in 1939. In the following year Italy participated in the invasion of France (just before the French surrender to Germany), and in 1941 invaded Greece and began an advance on Egypt.


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