Much of Mussolini's foreign policy was presented as an attempt to amend the perceived injustices of the "mutilated victory": Fiume was taken over in 1924; Albania was turned into an Italian puppet state under Zog I of Albania and merged into Italy in 1939; the annexation of all of Dalmatia during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia prolonged Italy's participation in World War II. Contemporary historians see the alleged correction of the "mutilated victory" as a part of the larger Mussolini's imperialist project that brought Italy to intervene in Spain, conquer Ethiopia, and occupy south-west France, Tunisia, and Corsica, by entering WW2. As the historian Gaetano Salvemini put it: "Fascism originated, grew, triumphed, and ultimately died, on the myth of vittoria mutilata".