The First World War: Blood in the Trenches (TRIH eps 671-673)
1915 · Resource
In this episode of The Rest Is History, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Italy’s disastrous entry into the First World War in 1915. They trace the political machinations that led Prime Minister Antonio Salandra and King Victor Emmanuel III to abandon neutrality, driven by irredentist ambitions and the lure of a greater Italy. The hosts explore the role of nationalist poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose flamboyant rhetoric helped stir public support, and a young Benito Mussolini, whose ea...
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Around 1915
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)