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[[File:Stresa-Front 1935.svg|thumb|States of the Stresa Conference (blue) against Nazi Germany (brown) ]]
The '''Stresa Front''' was an agreement made in [[Stresa]], a town on the banks of [[Lake Maggiore]] in Italy, between French prime minister [[Pierre-Étienne Flandin]] (with [[Pierre Laval]]), British prime minister [[Ramsay MacDonald]], and Italian prime minister [[Benito Mussolini]] on 14 April 1935. Practically, the Stresa Front was an alliance between [[Interwar France|France]], [[Fascist Italy|Italy]], and
Formally called the '''Final Declaration of the Stresa Conference''', its aim was to reaffirm the [[Locarno Treaties]] and to declare that the independence of [[First Austrian Republic|Austria]] "would continue to inspire their common policy". The signatories also agreed to resist any future attempt by the Germans to change the [[Treaty of Versailles]].
▲Formally called the '''Final Declaration of the Stresa Conference''', its aim was to reaffirm the [[Locarno Treaties]] and to declare that the independence of [[First Austrian Republic|Austria]] "would continue to inspire their common policy". The signatories also agreed to resist any future attempt by the Germans to change the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. However, the Stresa Front began to collapse after the [[United Kingdom]] signed the [[Anglo-German Naval Agreement]] in June 1935 in which Germany was given permission to increase the size of its navy. It broke down completely within two to three months of the initial agreement, just after the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Italian invasion of Abyssinia]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.beyondthirtynine.com/11-14-april-1935-the-stresa-front-to-stop-adolf-hitler/ | title=On the responsibly to sink the Stresa Front, by Angelo Paratico | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501192255/http://beyondthirtynine.com/11-14-april-1935-the-stresa-front-to-stop-adolf-hitler | archive-date=May 1, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:IsolaBellaPalBorromeo.jpg|thumb|The conference venue: the ''Palazzo Borromeo'' on [[Isola Bella (Lago Maggiore)|Isola Bella]], one of the Borromean islands of Lake Maggiore in (Northern Italy)]]
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The Stresa Front was triggered by [[Nazi Germany|Germany's]] declaration of its intention to build up an [[Luftwaffe|air force]], increase the size of the [[German Army (Wehrmacht)|army]] to 36 divisions (500,000 men) and introduce [[conscription]], in March 1935. All of these actions were direct violations of the Treaty of Versailles, which limited the size of the German Army to 100,000 men, forbade conscription in Germany and prohibited a German air force.{{CN|date=April 2023}}
The Stresa Front was in many ways the work of [[Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart|Baron Vansittart]], of the British diplomatic corps. Vansittart was strongly against [[appeasement]], and strongly for containing Germany. This had the practical effect of conceding to Italian desires in Ethiopia in an attempt to contain the Nazis.<ref name=":0" />
==Conference==
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[[Category:1930s controversies]]
[[Category:Trilateral relations]]
[[Category:Second Italo-Ethiopian War]]
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