victory" (vittoria mutilata) was the reason which led to the Impresa di Fiume ("Fiume Exploit"). On September 12, 1919, the nationalist poet Gabriele d'Annunzio...

of Italian nationalist irregulars in the seizure of the disputed city of Fiume (Rijeka). November 27 Bulgaria signs the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine. The...

its major war goals, notably gaining control of the Dalmatian coast and Fiume. President Wilson rejected Italy's claims on the basis of "national self-determination...

obtain Jubaland and Jarabub would mean that Italy would have to settle the Fiume dispute with Yugoslavia and the Dodecanese islands dispute with Greece,...

educational cooperation. The treaty also established the Free State of Fiume, the city-state consisting of the former Austro-Hungarian Corpus separatum...

Communism (2010). Ledeen, Michael (1977). The First Duce: D'Annunzio at Fiume. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40. ISBN 0-8018-1860-5. Obinger...

Republic against Yugoslavia and France in the dispute over the Free State of Fiume. The term was used by Hungary's prime minister Gyula Gömbös when advocating...

campaign (1919–1920)  British Empire  India Waziristan 1919 1919 Impresa di Fiume Forces loyal to Gabriele D'Annunzio American, British and French occupying...

occupied the heavily industrialised Ruhr district (January 1923). The German government encouraged the population of the Ruhr to passive resistance: shops would...

Marina, under Admiral Angelo Iachino. The Allies sank the heavy cruisers Fiume, Zara and Pola and the destroyers Vittorio Alfieri and Giosue Carducci,...

ratified by representatives of both parties, dissolving the Free State of Fiume and dividing it between the two kingdoms. A bill to provide for automatic...

(Tsingtao), Japanese-occupied China (d. 1997) Germany sent troops into the Ruhr valley in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, in order to confront leftist...

but fails due to public resistance and a general strike. March 15 – The Ruhr Red Army, a communist army 50,000 men strong, is formed in Germany. March...

was built in the late inter-war period by Cantieri Navali Quarnero (CNQ), Fiume, one of the Perseo sub-group of the Spica class. She was laid down on 14...

Chronology Date Target/Topic Event May 15/16, 1940 Oil and other installations in Ruhr In response to the bombing of Rotterdam, Western Air Plan 5: 4  was activated...

held back by artillery and machine gun fire. About 160,000 miners in the Ruhr of Germany went on strike. Fifty-two members of Sinn Féin attended the second...

lost access to the Mediterranean and to the important sea port of Rijeka (Fiume) and became landlocked, which had a negative effect on sea trading and strategic...

from San Francisco on a 79-day voyage to Boston. Factories and mines in the Ruhr region shut down as laborers refused to work ten hours a day. In the U.S...

Bank of France by April 30. Communists seized control of the government of Fiume after being defeated in voting. The U.S. state of Nebraska prohibited persons...