Italy was the location of a civil war.
The subsequent participation in World War II on the Axis side ended in military defeat , economic destruction and an Italian civil war .	Italian	Italians	World War II	World War II	Axis	Axis Powers	Italian civil war	Italian civil war
The Italian Civil War -LRB- Italian : La guerra civile -RRB- is the period between September 8 , 1943 -LRB- the date of the armistice of Cassibile -RRB- , and May 2 , 1945 -LRB- the date of the surrender of German forces in Italy -RRB- in which the Italian Resistance and the Italian Co-Belligerent Army fought together and defeated the forces of the Fascist Italian Social Republic .	Italy	Kingdom of Italy	Italian Social Republic	Italian Social Republic	Italian Resistance	Italian resistance movement	Italian	Italian language	armistice of Cassibile	armistice of Cassibile	surrender of German forces in Italy	Surrender of Caserta	Italian Co-Belligerent Army	Italian Co-Belligerent Army
