 Italy participated in the war primarily to gain new territory in the North and the East; it blocked a major Austrian peace proposal in 1918.The Treaty of St. Germain awarded the victorious Italian nation the Southern half of the County of Tyrol, Trieste, Istria, and the city of Zadar.Italy did not receive other territories promised by the Pact of London, so this outcome was denounced as a "Mutilated victory".