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In spring 1941, Italy created a Montenegrin client state and annexed most of the Dalmatian coast as the Governorship of Dalmatia (Governatorato di Dalmazia). A complicated four-way conflict between the puppet Montenegro regime, Montenegrin nationalists, Royalist remnants of the Yugoslav government, and Communist Partisans continued from 1941 to ...
All of central and northern Italy were occupied in a matter of hours, and the puppet state of the Italian Social Republic set up. [56] So despite Italy's surrender, the Italian Campaign lasted on for another year and a half. On 25 April, the Italian Social Republic was defeated, and on 2 May 1945, Germany surrendered, and the Italian Campaign ...
Ireland was in 1939 nominally a Dominion of the British Empire and a member of the Commonwealth.The nation had gained de facto independence from Britain after the Irish War of Independence, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 declared Ireland to be a "sovereign, independent, democratic state".
Ireland: Independence restored after direct British rule. In personal union with Britain until 1937. Initial establishment of first state called Ireland in 1177. June 7, 1929 Italy: Vatican City: Established by the Lateran Treaty: October 3, 1932 United Kingdom: Iraq: Formerly a League of Nations mandate. May 5, 1941 Italy Ethiopia
The Risorgimento movement emerged to unite Italy in the 19th century. Piedmont-Sardinia took the lead in a series of wars to liberate Italy from foreign control. Following three Wars of Italian Independence against the Habsburg Austrians in the north, the Expedition of the Thousand against the Bourbons of the Two Sicilies in the south, and the Capture of Rome, the unification of the country ...
The military history of Italy chronicles a vast time period, lasting from the military conflicts fought by the ancient peoples of Italy, most notably the conquest of the Mediterranean world by the ancient Romans, through the expansion of the Italian city-states and maritime republics during the medieval period and the involvement of the historical Italian states in the Italian Wars and the ...
Italy Japan: W [6] China and Japan had been at undeclared war since 1937: Second Sino-Japanese war. Declaration. 1941-12-11: Germany Italy United States: W [3] [6] German declaration. Italian declaration. 1941-12-11 United States Cuba Costa Rica Dominican Republic Guatemala Nicaragua: Germany Italy: W [6] Germany. Italy. 1941-12-11: Netherlands ...
The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 2 June 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic.