The First World War: Italy’s Doomed Campaign (TRIH ep 672, part 2)
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.
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Around 1915
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)