mutilated victory
What mutilated victory means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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A nationalist myth arguing that Italy had been betrayed by its allies at the Paris Peace Conference, popularised after the First World War.
The myth that Italy's victory in 1918 was betrayed, as nationalists claimed the Treaty of London promises were betrayed at Versailles.
Topics that use mutilated victory
- 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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