Curated playlist
Treaties of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)
- Covenant of the League of NationsEleven of nineteen delegates backed an equality motion for the League Covenant, but Wilson overruled it.
- Pact of SteelThe Pact of Steel assumed no war would come for at least three years.
- Munich AgreementCzechoslovakia waited in a hotel while four leaders decided its fate at Munich. It learned the outcome afterward.
- Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935The Franco-Italian Agreements, often called the Mussolini-Laval Accord, were signed in Rome on the 7th of January 1935. Two men put their names to the pages: French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.…
- Washington Naval TreatyAmerican codebreakers secretly read Japan's cables during the Washington Naval Treaty talks.
- Locarno TreatiesIn 1936, German troops entered the Rhineland and no Locarno Treaties signatory moved to stop them.
- Treaty of London (1915)The Treaty of London was signed on the 26th of April 1915, and almost nobody outside a small circle of diplomats was meant to know it existed. On one side of the table stood the United Kingdom, France and Russia. On the other stood Italy.…
- Treaty of VersaillesFrance chose the Hall of Mirrors for the Versailles signing because Germany's empire began there.
- Anti-Comintern PactThe Anti-Comintern Pact had a secret clause naming the Soviet Union. The public text did not.
- Armistice of CassibileThe battleship Roma sank with nearly 1,400 men after Italy's surrender. German bombers hit it at sea.
- Tripartite PactYugoslavia signed the Tripartite Pact, and a coup overthrew its government two days later.