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Events relating to italy
Italian writer Alberto Moravia wins success with his first novel, The Time of Indifference
Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli introduces a successful new line for women in the form of the padded shoulder
Benito Mussolini plays host in Venice to Adolf Hitler, the newcomer among European dictators
Elias Canetti publishes the novel later translated into English as Auto da Fé
Italian baritone Tito Gobbi makes his operatic debut in Gubbio in Bellini's La Somnambula
Mussolini uses a disagreement over grazing rights as a pretext for an empire-building invasion of Ethiopia
Mussolini appoints his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as his minister for foreign affairs
Hitler and Mussolini form an axis, or alliance, causing Germany and Italy to become known as the Axis powers
Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge, condemning the Nazi ideology of racism
Adolf Hitler, entertaining Mussolini in Germany, puts on spectacular demonstrations of German military and industrial might
Eugenio Pacelli is elected pope and takes the name Pius XII
In spite of the Axis agreement of 1936, Mussolini declines to bring Italy into the war on Hitler's side
Mussolini declares war on a France already on the verge of defeat
Mussolini invades France in the last-minute hope of gaining some territory in the armistice settlement
A delegation from France, defeated and partly occupied by Germany, signs in Rome an armistice with Mussolini's Italy
Germany, Italy and Japan form a Tripartite Pact as a military alliance
Mussolini plans a new Roman empire, reaching like the first one round the entire Mediterranean
Italian troops cross the Albanian border in the hope of a blitzkrieg against Greece
British aircraft sink three Italian battleships at anchor in Taranto harbour
The Italian navy, defeated off Cape Matapan, ceases to be a significant factor in the Mediterranean
Italian director Luchino Visconti's first film, Obsession, brings neorealism to the cinema
US poet Ezra Pound, in Italy during the war, broadcasts Fascist propaganda aimed at the United States
British and American troops land in Sicily to begin the Italian campaign
The king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, has Mussolini arrested and appoints in his place a field marshal, Pietro Badoglio
Italians signs a secret armistice with the Allies, as Allied troops land in Sicily
