Italian Civil War

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The Italian Civil War was a brutal internal conflict from 1943 to 1945 in which Italian partisans and the Kingdom of Italy fought against the fascist Italian Social Republic and its German allies during the final phase of World War II.


Statements (51)
Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II campaign
civil war
internal armed conflict
alsoKnownAs Guerra civile italiana
Italian Resistance War
characterizedBy guerrilla warfare
ideological conflict between fascism and anti-fascism
massacres
summary executions
widespread reprisals against civilians
combatant Allied forces in Italy
Italian Co-belligerent Army
Italian Social Republic
Italian partisans
Kingdom of Italy
Nazi Germany
Wehrmacht
conflictType resistance war
country Italy
endTime 1945
followedBy establishment of the Italian Republic
institutional referendum on the monarchy in Italy
hasCause German occupation of Italy
armistice of Cassibile
collapse of the Fascist regime in Italy
creation of the Italian Social Republic
hasPart Italian resistance movement
anti-partisan operations by German and RSI forces
partisan warfare in the Alps
urban insurrections in Italian cities
location Central Italy
Italian Peninsula
Northern Italy
opposingForce Italian partisans vs Italian Social Republic
Italian resistance movement vs German occupation forces
Kingdom of Italy vs Italian Social Republic
partOf World War II
result collapse of Fascist rule in Italy
defeat of the Italian Social Republic
liberation of most of Italy by Allied and partisan forces
transition of Italy from monarchy to republic
significantEvent Fosse Ardeatine massacre
German occupation of Rome
Marzabotto massacre
execution of Benito Mussolini
insurrection in Milan in April 1945
massacres of Italian civilians
reprisals against partisans
uprising in Northern Italian cities in April 1945
startTime 1943
timePeriod 20th century

Referenced by (7)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Italian Civil War ("Italian Resistance War")
Italian Civil War ("Guerra civile italiana")
alsoKnownAs
Italian Social Republic
event
Italian armistice of 1943
followedBy
Italian Social Republic
militaryConflict
Italian Civil War ("Italian partisans vs Italian Social Republic")
opposingForce
Giulino di Mezzegra
warContext

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