HIST-0054 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Military Dictatorship, Boris Iii Of Bulgaria, Serbian Nationalism
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Supposed to gain territorially after joining the allies. However did not get what they were promised under the influence of woodrow wilson. Wilson rejected it because the agreement was a secret agreement, he wanted to avoid this because he saw it as what caused wwi in the first place. Italian pm formally requested that it be transferred. The us and britain both refused to transfer because the king of serbs/croates/slovenes wanted it too. Wilson"s speech professor talking down to a student describing why italy could not have what they wanted. Pm saw him as having little respect to the sacrifices italy had made in the war. Treaty of rapallo: november 1920; fiume is declared an independent city, government of d"annunzio is disavowed and is supposed to disband; but d"annunzio refuses and declares war on italy. Revealed that there was strong expansionist feeling among the people and the government. Lira fell to 1/6 of pre-war value in 1922.