Topic summary
Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy
- Corfu incident
- Aventine Secession
- Battle for Grain
- Battle for Land
- Battle for the Lira
- Battle for Births
- Second Italo-Senussi War
- Lateran Treaty
- Italo-Soviet Pact
- Abyssinia Crisis
- Second Italo-Ethiopian War
- Foundation of the Empire
- Spanish Civil War
- Manifesto of Race
- Munich Agreement
- Racial laws
- Invasion of Albania
- Rome-Berlin Axis
- Pact of Steel
- World War II military history
- War crimes
The fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, also known in Italy as 25 Luglio (Italian: Venticinque Luglio, pronounced; lit.'25 July'), came as a result of parallel plots led respectively by Dino Grandi and King Victor Emmanuel III during the spring and summer of 1943, culminating with a successful vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Benito Mussolini at the meeting of the Grand Council of Fascism on 24–25 July 1943. The vote, although significant, had no de jure value, since by law in the Italian constitutional monarchy the prime minister was responsible for his actions only to the king, who was the only one who could dismiss him. Nevertheless, a new government was established as a result, putting an end to the almost 21 years of Fascist rule in the Kingdom of Italy, and Mussolini was placed under arrest.