The Great War (2014)

Mussolini and D'Annunzio On The Rise - Allies in Crisis Over Italy (6x6)

Air date: May 14, 2019

Italy joined World War 1 in 1915 after it had been promised territorial gains in the Treaty of London. Now that the Central Powers had been defeated, the Italian government and the Italians themselves expected that their contribution would be honored at the Paris Peace Conference. But France, Great Britain and the US had other plans and so the Italian government was caught between the new realities at Paris and the nationalists at home.