History A-Level
Fiume
What Fiume means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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A port city that Italy was denied, contradicting the 1915 Treaty of London and the principle of national self-determination.
The city seized by D'Annunzio in September 1919, which he held for over a year.
Topics that use Fiume
- 2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945 – The collapse of Liberal Italy and Mussolini’s Rise to Power, 1915–1922 (AQA A-Level)
- Paper 2, Option 2G.1: The rise and fall of fascism in Italy, c1911–46 - 2 The rise of Mussolini and the creation of a fascist dictatorship, 1919–26 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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