Italy (Earth-9251)

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. During World War II, Italy fought at the side of the Axis powers.

World War II
With the outbreak of World War II, Italy had already fallen to fascism, and was under the control of dictator Benito Mussolini, who allied Adolf Hitler from the Third Reich and Emperor Hirohito from the Empire of Japan.

HYDRA, the science division of the Nazi Party, created two of their bases in the north of Italy during the first years of World War II.

After HYDRA's leader Johann Schmidt betrayed the Nazis and revealed his own war plans, he plotted to use the power of the Tesseract to unleash the Ogdru Jahad upon the world at numerous important locations; Rome included.