History A-Level
Domestic tensions and the Pact of Steel
What Domestic tensions and the Pact of Steel means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Sanctions and war costs caused public discontent, and the 1939 Pact of Steel committed Italy to a full military alliance with Germany despite domestic unpreparedness.
Topics that use Domestic tensions and the Pact of Steel
- Challenges to, and the fall of, the fascist state, c1935–46 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Birth of the Italian Republic
- Division of Italy after 1943
- Economic strain and civilian hardship
- Impact of foreign policy success and failure before 1934
- Invasion of Abyssinia and its consequences
- Italian neutrality, 1939–40
- Italy’s relations with Britain, France and Germany
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