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Albania, which was a client state, was considered a territory to be annexed.. During the late 1920s, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini spoke with increasing urgency about imperial expansion, arguing that Italy needed an outlet for its "surplus population" and that it would therefore be in the best interests of other countries to aid in this expansion. [4]
[29] [30] [l] On the Western Front of World War II, Italy was the most costly campaign in terms of casualties suffered by infantry forces of both sides, during bitter small-scale fighting around strongpoints at the Winter Line, the Anzio beachhead and the Gothic Line. [31]
Map of the Kingdom of Italy at its greatest extent in 1943, during World War II, with the annexation of territories from France and Yugoslavia. The territories annexed by the latter are the area constituting the province of Ljubljana, the area merged with the province of Fiume and the areas making up the Governorate of Dalmatia
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. Clark's American Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful Allied invasion ...
During this period, Stanišić's Chetniks fought the Partisans in the Nikšić area alongside the Italians, and Đurišić's Chetniks did likewise in the Kolašin district of northern Montenegro. In May, Đurišić's Chetniks defeated the Durmitor Partisan Detachment, which was the last large Partisan unit remaining in Montenegro. [ 57 ]
The 82nd Airborne during World War II; Historical Museum of the Military Invasion of Sicily, 1943 (Museo Storico dello Sbarco in Sicilia 1943) Dedicated to the historical event which culminated in the liberation of Sicily and Italy from the German occupation; German Soldiers' Cemetery, Motta S. Anastasia, Sicily (in German)
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations: Sicily and the Surrender of Italy. United States Army in World War II (World War II 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition, online scan ed.). Washington, DC/Minnetonka, Minn: Center of Military History, U.S. Army/National Historical Society. LCCN 64-60002. OCLC 41110962. CMH Pub 6-2-1
Map of Great Italy according to the 1940 fascist project in case Italy had won the Second World War (the orange line delimits "Metropolitan Italy", the green line the borders of the enlarged "Italian Empire") Imperialism, colonialism and irredentism played an important role in the foreign policy of Fascist Italy.