Italian Civil War

Italian Civil War
Part of The Italian Campaign of World War II
Date 8 September 1943 - 2 May 1945 Location Italy Result Royal Italian and Italian Resistance victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy Italian Resistance United Kingdom United States	Italian Social Republic Germany
Commanders and leaders
Ivanoe Bonomi Alcide De Gasperi Luigi Longo Ferruccio Parri Alfredo Pizzoni Raffaele Cadorna Jr. Victor Emmanuel III Prince Umberto Pietro Badoglio Giovanni Messe	Benito Mussolini  Alessandro Pavolini  Rodolfo Graziani  Junio Valerio Borghese (POW) Renato Ricci

The Italian Civil War, was a civil war that happened in the Kingdom of Italy from 1943 - 1945. Before the civil war, Italy was on the side of the Axis powers. But after an Allied invasion in September 1943, Italy joined the Allies. But the German army occupied the north of the country and set up fascist government called the Italian social republic. Fighting continued until the royal Italian victory in May 1945.