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Mussolini Foreign Policy - Coggle Diagram
Mussolini Foreign Policy
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Balkans
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Make Italy dom power, Compete with France show power
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Yugoslavia
Pressure rise after supporting Croats, wanted to break free from state
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Africa
Libya
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1930s more repressive, concentration camps/barbed wire med to desert, cut Berber supply from Egypt
No economic benefit, purely for show. Big propaganda, little enthusiasm
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Spanish Civil war
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2500t of bombs 500 cannons 700 mortars 12,000 machine guns, 50 whippet tanks 3,800 motor vehicles
Evaluation
Trade with Ger H/E cost half a years tax, lire devalued and half foreign currency reserves lost
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On winning side H/E humiliation in Guadalajara, made Italy underprepared for WW2 used much needed ammo 4k deaths out of 40k, prevented consolidation after Abyssinia
Gained potential support from strong ally H/E pretty much just neutrality, more links with Ger, Reinforced quarrel with BR and FR
WW2
Failed to enter in 1939
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Hitler not surprised, compared it to 1914
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Failure
Military
Outdated, Rifles from 1891, biplanes lacked sand filters
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M's mistakes
Overconfident, refused to delegate. spread himself too thin
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Social
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Propaganda began to wear off after Greece, Egypt, Sicily lost
Low rations, soap petrol coffee unavailable
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Links to Germany
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350,000 labour workers and 200,000 soldiers sent to help Stalingrad
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