- By the end of the war in 1918, 600,000 Italians were dead, 950,000 were wounded and 250,000 were crippled for life
- The war cost more than the government had spent in the previous 50 years – and Italy had only been in the war three years. By 1918, the country was hit by very high inflation and unemployment was high
- The Italians did not get what they felt had been promised at the Treaty of London and that caused resentment especially at the losses Italy had endured fighting for the Allies
- Italy got very little at Versailles. The Italian public believed that her leaders there had been humiliated as the “Big Three” (Wilson of America, Lloyd George of Britain and Clemenceau of France) all but ignored the Italian delegation who were seen as secondary figures at Versailles.