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Problems facing Italy after the First World War - Coggle Diagram
Problems facing Italy after the First World War
Treaty of Saint-Germain
Mutilated victory
Felt cheated, betrayed and humiliated
Fiume vital for Yugoslavia
Colonies in Africa
Blamed liberal goverment
Expected sacrifices rewarded
by substantial territorial gain
by being acknowledged great power
Dalmatia had to few Italians
Treaty of London
Trentino and Trieste
Fiume
Dalmatia
Economic probelms after the war
Borrowing from Britain + US led to increase in debt
National debt rose from 16 billion livre to 85 livre
printing of banknotes=inflation (savings mc)
prices increased over 400 per cent during 1915-18
demobilisation of soldiers-high unemployment
closure of war industries-high unemployment
Negative trade balance
25% fall in real wages
1919: 2 million unemployed
Social problems after war
socialism and Russian Bolsheviks attractive
Widdened south and north divide
South: industries- profits (Siat, Pirelli, Montecatini)
North: poverty and poor agricultural methods
Wartime diciplined relaxed and rise in trade unions
1919: 1 million+ workers took part in strikes
Impact of WW1
5 million conscripted
600,000 dead
2.5 million demobilised
450,000 disabled
500,000 wounded
badly equipped/supplied