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| 1919 June 24 |
| | | A delegation from France, defeated and partly occupied by Germany, signs in Rome an armistice with Mussolini's Italy | |
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| 1940 September 27 |
| | | Germany, Italy and Japan form a Tripartite Pact as a military alliance | |
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| 1940 October 4 |
| | | Mussolini plans a new Roman empire, reaching like the first one round the entire Mediterranean | |
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| 1940 October28 |
| | | Italian troops cross the Albanian border in the hope of a blitzkrieg against Greece | |
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| 1940 November 11-12 |
| | | British aircraft sink three Italian battleships at anchor in Taranto harbour | |
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| 1941 March 28 |
| | | The Italian navy, defeated off Cape Matapan, ceases to be a significant factor in the Mediterranean | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Italian director Luchino Visconti's first film, Obsession, brings neorealism to the cinema | |
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| c. 1942 |
| | | US poet Ezra Pound, in Italy during the war, broadcasts Fascist propaganda aimed at the United States | |
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| 1943 July 10 |
| | | British and American troops land in Sicily to begin the Italian campaign | |
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| 1943 July 25 |
| | | The king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, has Mussolini arrested and appoints in his place a field marshal, Pietro Badoglio | |
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