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{{Infobox Prime Minister 
| name               = Alcide De Gasperi
| image              = Alcide de Gasperi 2.jpg
| order              = [[List of Prime Ministers of Italy|30th]] <br> [[Prime Minister of Italy]]
| monarch            = [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy|Victor Emmanuel III]]<br>[[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]]
| president    	     = [[Enrico De Nicola]] <br> [[Luigi Einaudi]]
| term_start         = December 10, 1945 
(contracted; show full) politics. During his successive governments Italy became a Republic (1946), signed a Peace Treaty with the Allies (1947), a member of the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO) in 1949 and an ally of the United States, which helped to revive the Italian economy through the [[Marshall Plan]]. In the same years, Italy also became a member of the [[European Coal and Steel Community]] (ECSC), which eventually transformed into the [[European Union]] (EU).

After the liberation of Italy in June 1944, he 
had served as minister without portfolio and then as foreign minister. In December 1945, he became Prime Minister for the first time, leading a coalition government that included the [[Italian Communist Party]] (PCI) and [[Italian Socialist Party]] (PSI). Communist party leader [[Palmiro Togliatti]] acted as vice-premier. He tried to soften the terms of the pending Allied peace⏎
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  treaty with Italy and secured financial and economic aid through the [[European Recovery Program]] (Marshal Plan) – which was opposed by the Communists.

In June 1946 a referendum was heldItaly held the [[Italian constitutional referendum, 1946|Constitutional Referendum]] to decide whether Italy would remain a monarchy or become a republic. The rRepublican options won with 54%. (See: [[Birth of the Italian Republic of the vote. Elections were also held at the same time for the [[Constituent Assembly of Italy|Constituent Assembly]]). As chief of the Italian delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1946|World War II peace conference]] in Paris, heDe Gasperi obtained concessions from the Allies that guaranteed Italian sovereignty. Under the [[Paris Peace Treaties]] ofTreaty of Peace with Italy, 1947]], the eastern border area was lost to [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] and the free territory of [[Trieste]] was divided between the two states.

One his most striking achievements in foreign policy was the [[Gruber-De Gasperi Agreement]] with Austria in September 1946 that established his home region, southern Tirol, as an autonomous region.

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