Italy was disappointed that it was denied territory promised by Britain and France.
Italy had not been given the land that had been promised at the Secret Treaty of London. Italy was heavily in debt, mostly to the USA. This led to unemployment and unrest in many parts of Italy from 1919 onwards and led to increasing support for Benito Mussolini, the leader of the Fascist Party.
After the war ended, at the Paris Peace Conference that led to the Versailles Treaty, the Italian government struggled against the other Allied leaders, the Big Three (Britain, France and the US), to gain all that they believed had been promised to them.
Italy faced serious postwar economic problems. Wartime governments had printed money to pay for arms, and inflation intensified. By the end of 1920 the lira was worth only one-sixth of its 1913 value. Savings became nearly worthless, and rents collected by landowners plummeted in value.
Many Italians were bitterly disappointed with their post-war lot, however, and conflict continued over Fiume and other territories in the Adriatic.
Why was Italy dissatisfied and unstable after World War I? Italy was dissatisfied because the veterans felt that their sacrifices went to waste. How did Mussolini achieve power? Mussolini achieve power by terrorizing Socialists, attacking strikers and farm workers, and protecting strikebreakers.
Italy wanted to gain the territory of Turkey and Africa but they didn't get what they wanted at end of WWI. Also, they were unhappy with the treaty of Versailles, they thought that injustice had been done to them. So it joined the side of Japan and Germany to get its territories back.
Why were Germany and Italy disappointed with the Treaty of Versailles? Italy did not get the regions it wanted. Germany was stripped of its military and resource-rich regions. Italy was stripped of the prosperous Rhine land.
Italians were unhappy with the parliamentary system and felt that they had not been treated as well as the other big countries at the peace conference and did not get as much territory as they should have. Italy was unstable because strikes occurred, workers took over factories, and peasants seized land.
On 23 May 1915, despite its alliance with Austria-Hungary and the German Empire, Italy entered the war on the side of the Entente. This act, sometimes referred to as 'l'intervento', aroused a wave of outrage and acrimony in the Monarchy.
Italy refused to support its ally Germany (as well as Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire) at the outbreak of World War I, because they believed that the Triple Alliance was meant to be defensive in nature.
Fascism arose in Europe after World War I when many people yearned for national unity and strong leadership. In Italy, Benito Mussolini used his charisma to establish a powerful fascist state. Benito Mussolini coined the term “fascism” in 1919 to describe his political movement.
On April 26, 1915, Italy negotiated the secret Pact of London by which Great Britain and France promised to support Italy annexing the frontier lands in return for entering the war on the Entente side.
Answer and Explanation: Japan was upset with the Treaty of Versailles because it did not gain all the territory it wanted; it also did not receive the respect of an equal nation at the negotiations and afterwards. Japan had joined the Allies during World War I in order to gain land.
The Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 caused the Italian political structure—and the economy—to rapidly collapse.
Italy's main issue was its enmity with Austria-Hungary, Germany's main ally. That made Italy the "odd man out" in the so-called Triple Alliance with the other two. Italy had joined (reluctantly) with Germany out of a fear of France.
Italian fascism emerged in the economic crisis of the 1920s and 1930s. It started with a string of violent clashes in the northern part of Italy beginning in 1920. There, tensions over pay and work conditions had put landowning farmers in conflict with Socialist-backed workers.
German resentment
It was bitterly criticized by the Germans, who complained that it had been “dictated” to them, that it violated the spirit of the Fourteen Points, and that it demanded intolerable sacrifices that would wreck their economy.
The Italian military was weakened by military conquests in Ethiopia, Spain and Albania before World War II. Their equipment, weapons and leadership were inadequate which caused their numerous defeats.
By joining the war later, Italy had formally established herself as the junior and inferior partner of the Rome-Berlin Axis. Thus, it is evident that Italy joined the war to exploit and profit from German success, and thus maximise Italian interests.
Ever since Mussolini began to falter, Hitler had been making plans to invade Italy to keep the Allies from gaining a foothold that would situate them within easy reach of the German-occupied Balkans. On the day of Italy's surrender, Hitler launched Operation Axis, the occupation of Italy.
Italian fascism was rooted in Ultranationalism, Italian nationalism, national syndicalism, revolutionary nationalism, and the desire to restore and expand Italian territories, which Italian Fascists deemed necessary for a nation to assert its superiority and strength and to avoid succumbing to decay.
For large numbers of Italians, an oppressive fascist regime brought economic hardship and/or a loss of basic human rights. For others fascism appeared to bring stability, well-being and national honour (epitomized in the conquest of Ethiopia in 1936) - for which authoritarian government was a price worth paying.
In the Treaty of Saint-Germain (1919), Italy gained Trentino, part of Slovene-speaking Gorizia, Trieste, the German-speaking South Tirol, and partly Croatian-speaking Istria.
Mussolini's main goal was to rule an empire that was the heir of the Roman Empire. He wanted a powerful Italy ruled by one strong totalitarian leader (himself).