Triple Alliance and Italy prior to WWI
Italian Colonial empire is the name, given in 1936, to the set of territories owned by Italy between 1882 and 1947. Origin of Italian colonialism can be found in the desire to take part in the great partition of African lands by European powers, and also in the real need to find a way to channel the surplus of population, that was actually emigrating into Tunisia, France and the Americas. Italy began to form a colonial empire in 1869 by buying land in the Bay of Assab on the Red Sea from the local sultan. It occupied the whole of Eritrea which was made a colony in 1889 but its attempt to seize Ethiopia was defeated at Adowa in 1896. This led to the downfall of the government of Francesco Crispi and remained an embarrassment for nationalists, who had expected a united Italy to gain glory abroad. Italy recognized the independence of Ethiopia but still retained much influence there because of her colonies in neighboring Eritrea and
In the event the Triple Alliance was essentially meaningless, for Italy subsequently negotiated a secret treaty with France, under which Italy would remain neutral should Germany attack France - which in the event transpired. Italy, although allied to both Germany and Austria-Hungary, was able to avoid entering the fray by citing a clause enabling it to evade its obligations to both. Italian Somaliland ; this latter had been annexed or purchased piece by piece with a series of pacific treaties with local sultans and , in part, ceded by Great Britain as a compensation for Italy that did not receive any of the German colonies parted after WWI. Italy acquired Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (these two regions together forms modern Libya) in the war with Turkey in 1911-12, as well as the island of Rhodes an dodekanesos (at present part of Greece) .
Some topics in this essay:
Germany Austria-Hungary,
Triple Alliance,
Woodrow Wilson,
France Italy,
Austria-Hungary France,
Italian Somaliland,
Francesco Crispi,
Red Sea,
Origin Italian,
Britain France,
germany austria-hungary,
triple alliance,
britain france,
remain neutral,
colonial empire,
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