This promise was not fulfilled, causing Italian fury at a so-called 'mutilated victory'. In the Great War of 1914 to 1918, Italy entered the war based on the promise by France and the United Kingdom that Italy would be guaranteed a fair share of the spoils of victory upon Germany's and Austria-Hungary's defeat. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Italy went through centuries of foreign domination until the 19th century. Italy is a rising but vulnerable major power.
