Kingdom of Italy

"Friends!"

- Italy after switching sides in WW1

The Kingdom of Italy was a monarchy in Southern Europe.

History
In 1859, the Kingdom of Italy was created. Italy made an alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, but the alliance was only an defense pact. For the first part of WW1, Italy was neutral. However after being promised for land by the Entente, the kingdom joined the Entente. Italy won WW1, but only got some land. It went fascist and Benito Mussolini became dictator of the kingdom. Mussolini would join the Axis Powers during WW2, but after the Allies had invaded southern Italy, and after a massive series of blunders and failures in the military, the kingdom was dissolved in 1943 and replaced by the Italian republic in 1946.