1. Unification of Italy
World History
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2. Europe 1850

3. Italian Unification 1850, Austria still dominant power.
People looked to northern Italian state of Piedmont to lead the fight for unification
King of Piedmont (Camillo di Cavour) made an alliance with French emperor (Louis-Napoleon)

4. Map

5. Italian Unification
Conflict in Piedmont caused other nationalists to overthrow their governments and join with Piedmont

6. Southern Italy

7. Giuseppe Garibaldi Raised an army of 1,000 volunteers
Revolts broke out in Sicily and took control of the Island
Marched to Naples and took it over

8. Garibaldi
Turned his conquests over to Piedmont and by 1870 Italy becomes united making Rome its capital

9. Italy in the 1920s
Between 1919 and 1939 all major countries of Europe except France and Great Britain had adopted some form of dictatorial gov’t

10. Fascism in Italy (Benito Mussolini)
Established the first European Fascist government
Fascism
Italy suffered economic problems post WWI
Feared Communist takeover at in Russia
Formed group of Fascists called Blackshirts

11. Mussolini and Black Shirts

12. Prime Minister 1922 (Il Duce)
Mussolini as had enough followers so that Italian king made him Prime Minister
Fascist Dictatorship
Police given authority to arrest anyone

13. Mussolini and Hitler