when did italy enter the first world war
1915
title: Italian entry into World War I text: important force. Italian entry into World War I When the war started in August 1914, Italy declared neutrality even though it had military alliances with Germany and Austria-Hungary. It bargained for better terms and received them from Britain and France, which promised it a slice of Austria and a slice of the Ottoman Empire. in 1915 it switched and joined the Triple Entente (i.e. the Allies). Public and elite opinion was split on the wisdom of the war, for the nation was very poorly prepared, the army was not well trained, and there was too small an industrial and financial title: Italian entry into World War I text: Italian entry into World War I When the war started in August 1914, Italy declared neutrality even though it had military alliances with Germany and Austria-Hungary. It bargained for better terms and received them from Britain and France, which promised it a slice of Austria and a slice of the Ottoman Empire. in 1915 it switched and joined the Triple Entente (i.e. the Allies). Public and elite opinion was split on the wisdom of the war, for the nation was very poorly prepared, the army was not well trained, and there was too small an industrial and financial base. A title: British Army during World War I text: General George Milne attacked in the Lake Doiran Sector. The Bulgarian Army—now in retreat—signed an armistice on 30 September 1918. Italy joined the war on the Allies' side on 5 May 1915, declaring war on Austria-Hungary on 23 May 1915 and on Germany on 28 August 1916. The British Army's involvement in the Italian campaign did not start until late 1917, when troops were sent to help prevent a defeat on the Italian front. On 24 October 1917 in the battle of Caporetto the Second Italian Army collapsed and the Italians were forced to retreat to the Piave River, where title: World War II by country text: the D-day landings was decided by an Atlantic ocean weather report from Blacksod Bay, County Mayo Ireland. Italy had completed conquests (Ethiopia and Albania) prior to its entry into World War II. After the initially successful campaigns of Nazi Germany, Italy joined in the war in June 1940, planning to get a share of Allied territory with the defeat of France. Italy's war effort went poorly, resulting in defeats in Greece and North Africa. The Allies started to invade Italy in the summer of 1943 and Mussolini's government collapsed. The new royal government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice title: Italian Front (World War I) text: side. Set up between the British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, the Italian Foreign Minister Sidney Sonnino and the French Foreign Minister Jules Cambon, Italy's entry was finally engineered by the Treaty of London of 26 April 1915, in which Italy renounced her obligations to the Triple Alliance. On 23 May, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary. During the Italo-Turkish War in Libya (1911–1912), the Italian military suffered equipment and munition shortages not yet repaired before Italian entry into the Great War. At the opening of the campaign, Austro-Hungarian troops occupied and fortified high ground of the Julian Alps and Karst Plateau,