Chapter 63: Italy's Reasons for Entering the War

Italy's sudden entry into the war surprised many countries, and Austria-Hungary did not have time to react.

It was almost impossible for Italy to enter the war, but it also had a certain logic.

The king was a warlord, which almost doomed Italy to enter the First World War.

The king may be distrustful of the army and a soft egg in politics. Later, Mussolini marched into Rome, and he acquiesced to Mussolini's rule without saying a word.

Cowardly people are very cautious, especially now that Russia has collapsed and the Allies have a clear advantage, he does not dare to look for trouble, but fate has found him.

Because of his betrayal of the Central Powers, the German Emperor Wilhelm II often threatened him and sent some local troops to invade Italian territory.

The violation of national sovereignty was almost a naked declaration of war, but the king still did not dare to say anything.

The Italian prime minister, who had been advocating withdrawal from the Allies, did not dare to pay for himself and ignored the unreasonable attack of Germany.

Seeing that the ruling class is so incompetent, the Italian people can't stand it anymore. The arrogant "Romans" did not allow them to surrender to other barbarians.

They marched on a larger scale than in Russia, and the literati denounced the government's inaction, declaring that they would drive the traitors out of the country along with the Germanic people.

Fortunately, government officials protected the king and the prime minister in time, so that they could not turn a blind eye to what was going on outside the window, so that the tragedy of Sarajevo was not repeated.

The Italian people did not receive the response they deserved, and were deeply disappointed with the government, and began a large-scale smashing and looting.

A large number of state-owned enterprises were boycotted, infrastructure was destroyed, the safety of civil servants was threatened, and all levels of government were nearly paralyzed overnight.

Most of the Apennines fell into anarchy, and Italy was in turmoil during this period.

The major doctrines took advantage of this opportunity to propagate their ideas, swept through all strata of Italy, and made Italy even more chaotic.

At the critical moment, the king still pinned his hopes on the Entente, hoping that they would take the initiative to lend a hand.

But Britain and France are too busy with the war to take care of themselves, how can they have time to care about a country that has nothing to do with them? So only Italy was left messy in the wind.

The king now recognized the facts, and under pressure he threw all the blame on the prime minister, and then deposed the hapless prime minister.

He then declared that he would fight the Germanic invaders to the end, and would not surrender even if the last drop of blood was shed.

He ordered the Wehrmacht to knock out all the Germans, but to the great surprise, the Italian regular army could not even beat the militia!

The 400,000 people did not break through the German defense, and in the end, the Germans had to be happy enough and go on their own.

However, the official Italian adaptation became: the heroic Italian man defended his homeland and defeated the unbearable and evil Germanic invaders of Fira.

At this point, the immediate casus bella has been generated, and the next step is to analyze the historical origins.

Italy was founded by the House of Savoy. The dynasty wanted to drive Austrian power out of Italy, but its own strength was weak, and it happened that France was Austria's sworn enemy, so it ceded its hometown of Savoy to France in exchange for French help.

However, this exchange was never taken again, and to this day Savoy remained French territory, and the Savoy dynasty became the Savoy dynasty without Savoy.

In this sense, the French invaded Savoy and Corsica, where their people had lived for generations, but because of some change they had to speak French.

In addition, the founding of Italy was already in the 19th century, when the colonies were basically carved up, and only some uninhabited territory remained in Africa.

In order to prove that they were also European powers, the Italians embarked on the road of exploring Africa.

However, the territory it colonized was very small, and it was all rotten, and there was a Solomonic dynasty that was not easy to mess with; Compared to France's strong colonies in Africa, it is simply more popular than popular.

The Italians, naturally, could not stand such humiliation, so they had previously been part of the Allies.

So why did Italy turn against the water halfway through? The choice of the prime minister is partly a part, but the main thing is to return to history.

In the early Middle Ages, Italy was ruled by the Lombards, and it was still a complete feudal state.

But with Charlemagne's rise, most of Western Europe was ruled by Carolingian. After Charlemagne's death, Italy was ruled by a Roman Empire made up of Germanic peoples, and it was from this that Italy's dislike of the Germans began.

At the end of the fifteenth century, the internal power of the HRE was decentralized, and it was difficult for the central government to control Italy, which was inaccessible, so that the Italian states were gradually separated from the control of the HRE. This is the "Shadow Kingdom".

Independence was a good thing, but after independence Italy was torn apart, and the Apennine countries exchanged views with each other, just as they had been in the warlord situation of East Asia.

There is no one else to blame for this situation, but only God, who is omnipotent and lacks money, can do such a thing.

Italy, in particular, was so close to God that it was only after the end of the Thirty Years' War (the final part of the Reformation) that Catholic authority was dealt a blow that Italy began to attempt unification.

Unfortunately, before the Wars of Religion, the Habsburgs had a tight grip on Greater Greece (southern Apennines, not Greece), and Austria, the Habsburg branch, also controlled northern Italy.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era of European absolutism arrived, and the various powers became more aggressive.

The Apennines bore the brunt of their proximity to Austria, which soon took control of most of Italy.

The absolute monarchy was brutal, and it was not easy to maintain it, and rebellions had to be suppressed by more violent means.

Then the French Revolution, with the help of Napoleon, succeeded in making Austria spit out Italy.

Soon, however, Austria made a comeback, but at this time Austria was surrounded by enemies, and the compatriots who had been ruled by themselves had now become enemies, and the whole country was so busy that it had no heart to care about Italy.

It was not until the second half of the 19th century that the Savoy dynasty completed its mission to unify Italy, which shows that the process of unification of Italy was very difficult.

So why is it so hard? It's all good things done by the Austrians! They still have a part of the Italian territory that has not been returned to us to this day!

Although France was not a good cake, he did help me to reunify, but what did the Austrians help me? Just oppress us in a vacuum! This is contempt for humanity!

We fought for the Germanic peoples, but what did we gain when the war ended? Nothing was gained.

After that, we hated war and no longer wanted to go to war, but the Austrians still forced us to die for the bullshit Habsburg!

That's obviously better than the French, but they have some territorial disputes with us, which can be ignored.