Italy
Jan 19, 2016
Italy
Geography of Italy
Southern Europe Peninsula – the boot Includes islands – Sicilly, Sardinia Southern side of the Alps Surrounded by 4 seas – Adriatic, Mediterranean Population - 61,261,254 Capitol – Rome
Over 3 million people
Major Cities – Naples, Milan, Venice, Florence Active Volcanoes – Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli
Government and Economy
Republic President – Giorgio Napolitano Prime Minister – Matteo Renzi Money – Euro Main sources of economy –
Industry – machinery, iron and steel
Tourism
Agriculture – grapes, vegetables, fish
Exports – engineering products, cars
Culture Language – Italian, German, French
(Sicilian, Venetian, etc) Food – pasta, tomatoes, garlic, cheese,
prosciutto, wine Family-centric – even in business (Fiat) Holidays –
Christmas and most Christian holidays
Nov 1st – Saints Day
April 25 - Liberation Day, marking the 1945 liberation ending World War II in Italy in 1945.
Patron Saints celebrations – towns and villages
Culture Major center of the Renaissance
– arts, music, architecture Paintings and artists – Raphael,
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello
Music – opera
Architecture – Roman, Baroque, Neoclassical
Religion – Roman Catholic and Islam
Vatican City Sovereign city-state within Rome Lateran Treaty (1929) – signed by Prime
Minister Mussolini Bishop of Rome – Pope Absolute Elective Monarchy Economy - Tourism St Peter’s Basilica, Sistine Chapel, Museums Pope Francis (2013) –
Born in Argentina
Pope of the poor
Less frivolous, tweets
Historical Landmarks
“Holy Shroud” in Turin Cathedral
Coliseum
Leaning tower of Pisa
Venice gondolas
Paestum
Catacombs – burial for nobles
Piece of History – Mussolini The Rise and Fall of Mussolini Italy declared its neutrality upon the outbreak of World War I on the grounds that
Germany had embarked upon an offensive war. In 1915, Italy entered the war on the side of the Allies but obtained less territory than it expected in the postwar settlement. Benito (“Il Duce”) Mussolini, a former Socialist, organized discontented Italians in 1919 into the Fascist Party to “rescue Italy from Bolshevism.” He led his Black Shirts in a march on Rome and, on Oct. 28, 1922, became prime minister. He transformed Italy into a dictatorship, embarking on an expansionist foreign policy with the invasion and annexation of Ethiopia in 1935 and allying himself with Adolf Hitler in the Rome-Berlin Axis in 1936. When the Allies invaded Italy in 1943, Mussolini's dictatorship collapsed; he was executed by partisans on April 28, 1945, at Dongo on Lake Como. Following the armistice with the Allies (Sept. 3, 1943), Italy joined the war against Germany as a cobelligerent. A June 1946 plebiscite rejected monarchy and a republic was proclaimed. The peace treaty of Sept. 15, 1947, required Italian renunciation of all claims in Ethiopia and Greece and the cession of the Dodecanese islands to Greece and of five small Alpine areas to France. The Trieste area west of the new Yugoslav territory was made a free territory (until 1954, when the city and a 90-square-mile zone were transferred to Italy and the rest to Yugoslavia).
Assignment – Create a timeline or sequence of events graphic organizer AND identify 2 “cause and effect” events
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