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{{otheruses|Kingdom of Italy}}
{{Infobox Former Country
|native_name = ''Regno d'Italia''
|conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Italy
|common_name = Italy
|continent = Europe
|region    = Italy
|country   = Italy
(contracted; show full)ly committed to the Triple Alliance. The [[Triple Entente]] in April of 1915, brokered a territorial deal with the Italian government with the [[London Pact]] offering Italy the Italian-populated lands it wanted from Austria-Hungary as well as land in the Balkans and German colonies in Africa. The proposal fulfilled the desires of Italian nationalists and Italian imperialism and was agreed to. Italy joined the Triple Entente in its war against Austria-Hungary and Germany.

[[Image:Luigi Cadorna.jpg|thumb|2
500px|[[Luigi Cadorna]], (the man to the left of two officers to who he is speaking) while visiting British batteries during World War I.]]
The outset of the campaign against Austria-Hungary looked initially in favour of Italy, with Austria-Hungary's army spread to cover its fronts with [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]] and [[Russian Empire|Russia]], Italy had a numerical superiority against the Austro-Hungarian army. However, this advantage was never fully utilized as Italian military commander [[Luigi Cadorna]] insisted on a dangerous frontal assault against Austria-Hungary in an attempt to occupy the Slovenian plateau and [[Ljubljana]] that would put the Italian army not far away from Austria-Hungary's imperial capital of [[Vienna]]. After 11 failed offensives with enormous loss of life, the Italian offensive campaign to take Vienna collapsed and in 1916, the Austro-Hungarian army managed to push the Italian Army back into Italy as far as [[Verona]] and [[Padua]] in their Strafexpedition, but this also was also very little progress for Austria-Hungary.

In the summer of 1916, the Italian Army managed to take Gorizia from Austria, despite a number of other failed offensives, but by fall of 1917, with the Germans signing an armistice with the new state of [[Soviet Union|Bolshevik Russia]] with the [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]], the German and Austro-Hungarian armies converged on Italy, forcing the Italians even further back. The Italian army regrouped at the Piave River. 
[[Image:Battle of Vittorio Veneto.jpg|thumbnail|200px|righleft|Map of the [[Battle of Vittorio Veneto]], in which the Italian Army decisively beat the invading Austro-Hungarian army]]
At Piave the Italian army managed to hold off the Austro-Hungarian and German armies with the opposing armies repeatedly failing afterwards major battles such as [[Battle of Asiago]] and the [[Battle of Vittorio Veneto]] in which the Italian Army crushed the Austrian offensive. Austria-Hungary ended the fighting against Italy upon the armistice on [[11 November]], [[1918]] which ended W(contracted; show full)
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