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History of Italy and Europe

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  1. In which year was the Kingdom of Italy proclaimed, with Victor Emmanuel II as its first king?
  2. Which leader led the Expedition of the Thousand to Sicily in 1860?
  3. Which event of 20 September 1870 completed the territorial unification of Italy?
  4. Who was Benito Mussolini, and when did he become head of the Italian government?
  5. What happened in Italy on 2 June 1946?
  6. Which treaty of 1957 created the European Economic Community, with Italy as one of the six founding states?
  7. What was the French Revolution of 1789 chiefly directed against?
  8. Which war began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo?
  9. What was the Berlin Wall, built in 1961?
  10. Why did Cavour make a secret agreement with Napoleon III at Plombieres in 1858?
  11. What was the Statuto Albertino of 1848?
  12. What did the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) aim to do in Europe?
  13. Which political group did Giuseppe Mazzini found in 1831 to pursue a united Italian republic?
  14. What was the "Triple Alliance" that Italy joined in 1882?
  15. Which period of Italian politics is associated with Giovanni Giolitti?
  16. What did the Lateran Pacts of 1929 establish?
  17. Which date is celebrated in Italy as Liberation Day (Festa della Liberazione)?
  18. Which program did the United States launch in 1947 to help rebuild European economies, including Italy's?
  19. What was the stated justification for the racial laws that Italy adopted in 1938?
  20. What did the Maastricht Treaty (1992) create?
  21. In the 1970s, what name is given to the period of political violence in Italy?
  22. What was Italy's "economic miracle"?
  23. What was the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia?
  24. Which crisis began in 1929 with the collapse of the New York stock market?
  25. What was the "Resistenza" in Italian history?
  26. Why did Italy leave the Triple Alliance and enter the First World War in 1915 on the side of the Entente?
  27. How did the phrase "vittoria mutilata" (mutilated victory) shape Italian politics after 1919?
  28. What was the main consequence of the armistice of 8 September 1943 for Italy?
  29. Why is the Italian Constitution of 1948 described as a compromise?
  30. Which statement best explains why Bismarck's German unification (1871) changed the balance of power in Europe?
  31. A historian compares the Risorgimento with the Resistance. What continuity does the 1948 Constitution suggest between them?
  32. Who was the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia who directed the diplomacy of Italian unification until his death in 1861?
  33. Which alliance did Italy join in 1949 as a founding member?
  34. Which two cities served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy before Rome?
  35. What was the "Biennio rosso" in Italy?
  36. What did Napoleon's first Italian campaign of 1796-1797 change in the peninsula?
  37. Why did Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 change Italy's position in Europe?

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