Curated playlist
Treaties of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)
- Covenant of the League of NationsThe Covenant of the League of Nations was signed on the 28th of June 1919, tucked into Part I of the Treaty of Versailles, and it carried an astonishing ambition: to bind the nations of the world into a single agreement that would prevent…
- Pact of SteelThe Pact of Steel was signed on the 22nd of May 1939, binding Germany and Italy to go to war together. Foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano put their names to a document that obliged each country to aid the other…
- Munich AgreementThe Munich Agreement was signed at about 1:30 in the morning on the 30th of September 1938, in a city that gave it its name and its permanent stain. Four men put their signatures to a document in the Führerbau: Adolf Hitler, Neville…
- Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935Italy entered World War I expecting to gain territory from the defeated German colonial empire. The Treaty of Versailles denied Italy these lands, dividing them instead between France, Japan and the British Empire. Italians received only…
- Washington Naval TreatyOn the 6th of February 1922, five of the world's most powerful nations put their signatures to a document that would reshape naval warfare for two decades. The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, bound the British…
- Locarno TreatiesThe Locarno Treaties were born from a contradiction. Germany, still raw from the humiliations of the Treaty of Versailles, sat down in October 1925 with the very nations that had defeated it and signed a set of agreements that would, for a…
- Treaty of London (1915)On the 26th of April 1915, four diplomats signed a document in London that would reshape Europe. The United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Italy agreed to keep their pact secret while promising territorial gains to pull Italy into World War…
- Treaty of VersaillesThe Treaty of Versailles was signed on the 28th of June 1919, exactly five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the event that had ignited the war it was meant to end. The hall chosen for the signing was…
- Anti-Comintern PactOn the 25th of November 1936, in the offices of a semi-official diplomatic bureau that operated outside Germany's formal foreign ministry, two ambassadors put their signatures to a document that would reshape the alignment of the world's…
- Armistice of CassibileThe Armistice of Cassibile was signed on the 3rd of September 1943, in a tent at an Allied military camp in Sicily, ending Italy's participation in World War II on the side of the Axis. The signing took just minutes. But the road to that…
- Tripartite PactThe Tripartite Pact was signed in Berlin on the 27th of September 1940. Adolf Hitler stood by as Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, and Saburō Kurusu each placed their signature on the document, representing Germany, Italy, and Japan.…