WI Italy decided to sit bck and sell to the central powers and the allies? Despite what any can say of the Italian military its handling of industry during that time was simply remarkable. The best was Fiat which had 3,200 employees in 1915 and 61,000 by 1918 all which worked full shifts making almsot half a million cars of various models in that time.
Italy doesn't fight in WWI
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How so?
Would the numbers of Austrian and German troops she tied up really of made much of a difference? Or are you referring to Italian products being sold to the CPs?
Rockingham
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Presumably the Italians will still be given trieste and Tirol and the Dodecanese, but not Istria(If the allies win). They are still going to want to punish the Ottomans and AH.
Not just Italian products, imagine a continuous line of supplies from the Americas to Spain, then to Italy, then undisturbed to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany. It would also permit the Austro-Hungarian navy to make some action outside of he Adriatic.
Why? I mean that is quite a bit of land for selling toones enemy. Spain had a huge economic boom thanks to staying out of the fight, but could only really sell to the allies due to logistics. Italy is in the postion to sell to everyone, and most likely would only stop selling to the CP's or the Allies once the war looks to be ending.
MrP
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Dunno about the A-H battlefleet doing much in the Med.* The Entente would doubtless secure Greece as a base to monitor the Adriatic if they couldn't get Italy onside.
Agree about supplies and freeing up A-H and German troops. Italy is going to be very very much richer ITTL than IOTL.
EDIT: * Though it's good news from A-H and German sub captains.
Probably no Fascist regime. One of the biggest impetuses for the rapid development of Fascism was Italian disappointment at the results of the Great War, particularly after all the blood they'd shed. If that doesn't happen, Mussolini's movement never gains much traction, that is, if he even leaves the PSI in the first place (I don't remember whether he broke with the Socialists before or after the declaration of war).
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Rockingham
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Firstly, the Allies withdrew European borders along National Lines...and even if trieste and Tirol become independant rather then Italian, theirs a queston of how long the Allies accept that....
Secondly, yes, Italy will be far better of in virtually every term includng economics, due to this war.
They might perhaps invade ethiopia instead though...