Start |
Finish |
Name of Conflict |
Belligerents |
Outcome |
Combatant 1 |
Combatant 2 |
1866 |
1866 |
Third Italian War of Independence |
Italy |
Austrian Empire |
Italian victory:
Armistice of Cormons and Treaty of Vienna:
|
1870 |
1870 |
Capture of Rome |
Italy |
Papal States
Second French Empire |
Italian victory, Debellation of the Papal States. |
1885 |
1895 |
Eritrean War[1] |
Italy |
Ethiopia Mahdist Sudan |
Italian victory, establishment of Italian Eritrea. |
1889 |
1920 |
Pacification of Somalia[2] |
Italy |
Various rebels Dervish State |
Italian victory, consolidation of Italian Somaliland. |
1895 |
1896 |
First Italo-Ethiopian War |
Italy |
Ethiopia Russia France United Kingdom |
Ethiopian victory, Treaty of Addis Ababa:
- Ethiopia recognised as independent country by Italy.
- Italy abrogates the Treaty of Wuchale.
|
1899 |
1901 |
Boxer Rebellion |
United Kingdom
Japan
Russia
France
United States
Germany
Italy
Austria-Hungary |
Righteous Harmony Society
Manchu-China |
Allied victory, Boxer Protocol:
- Anti-foreign societies banned in China.
|
1902 |
1903 |
Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03 |
Italy
United Kingdom
Germany |
Venezuela |
Compromise:
- Venezuelan debt dispute resolved
|
1911 |
1912 |
Italo-Turkish War |
Italy |
Ottoman Empire |
Italian victory:
|
1914 |
1918 |
World War I |
Italy
United Kingdom
Indian Empire
Dominion of Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Newfoundland
Belgium
France
Russia
Japan
United States
Serbia
Greece
Other Allies |
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria |
Italian victory:
Russia pulls out in 1917
- Russian Civil War
- Creation of the Soviet Union
- Josef V. Stalin Rises to power
Creation of League of Nations |
1918 |
1920 |
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War |
British Empire
Italy
France
United States
Japan
Greece |
Soviet Russia
Far Eastern Republic |
Inconclusive:
- Allied withdrawal from Russia
Bolshevik victory over White Army
|
1918 |
1921 |
Occupation of Adalia |
Italy |
Ottoman Empire |
Italian victory:
|
1920 |
1920 |
Vlora War |
Italy |
Principality of Albania |
Albanian victory, Italy withdraws from Albania. |
1923 |
1923 |
Corfu incident |
Italy |
Kingdom of Greece |
Italian victory:
- Corfu is successfully occupied by Italy.
- Agreement between Italy and Greece under the auspices of the League of Nations.
- Most of Italy's demands are met by the Greek government.
|
1923 |
1932 |
Pacification of Libya |
Italy |
Senussi rebels |
Italian victory:
- Stabilization of Italian rule in Libya.
|
1935 |
1936 |
Second Italo-Abyssinian War |
Italy
|
Ethiopian Empire |
Italian victory:
|
1936 |
1939 |
Spanish Civil War |
Nationalist
Italy
Germany
Portugal
Foreign volunteers |
Republican
Foreign volunteers
Soviet Union (1936–1938)
Mexico |
Nationalist victory:
|
1939 |
1939 |
Invasion of Albania |
Italy |
Albania |
Italian victory, Italian occupation of Albania. |
1939 |
1945 |
World War II/Italian Civil War |
Axis Powers
Germany
Italy
Japan
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Manchukuo
Mengjiang
Finland
Thailand |
The Allies
British Empire
France
Poland
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Czechoslovakia
Norway
Greece
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
United States
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Indian Empire
Nepal
South Africa
Brazil
China
Ethiopian Empire |
Allied victory:
- Italian Social Republic, co-belligerent of the Axis from 1943-1945, is defeated in the Italian Civil War;
- Kingdom of Italy, co-belligerent of the Allies from 1943-1945, is victorious.
- Italy officially is among the victors, but is forced to cede much of its territory and pay reparations to several countries.
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