Hurumende yechiFascist iyo yakauya kuzvitonga naBenito Mussolini muna 1922 yakatsvaka kuwedzera ukuru hweumambo hweItaly uye kugutsa zvirevo zvevaIrredentist veItaly. Muna 1935<unk>36, mukupinda kwechipiri muEthiopia Italy yakabudirira uye yakabatanidza kukunda kwayo kutsva nemakoroni ayo ekare eEast Africa. Muna 1939, Italy yakapinda muAlbania
uye akabatanidza muhurumende yechiFascist. Munguva yeHondo Yenyika Yechipiri (1939<unk>45), Italy yakaumba mubatanidzwa weaxis neJapan neGerman ndokutora nzvimbo dzinoverengeka (senge zvikamu zveFrance, Greece, Egypt neTunisia) asi yakamanikidzwa murunyararo rwekupedzisira kusiya matunhu ayo ese nevadziviriri. Pashure pehondo yevagari vemo uye kuderera kwezvemari kwakakonzerwa neHondo Yenyika II, Italy yakafarikanya chishamiso chezvemari, yakasimudzira kubatana kweEurope, yakabatana neNATO uye yakava nhengo inoshingaira yeEuropean Union. Italy yakapiwa mvumo neSangano Romubatanidzwa Wenyika Dzepasi Pose kuti itarisire Somaliland muna 1950. Somalia payakawana rusununguko muna 1960, makore makumi masere okudzvinyirirwa kweItaly akapera.