The Kingdom of Italy fought on the side of the Allied powers of France and Great Britain in World War 1. Their battlefields were mostly different to the open trench covered battlefields of northern France and Belgium, however. Any tank for Italian use would have to not only fill the need to fight in very mountainous terrain but also in colonial wars in Africa.

In a contract dated 13th October 1915 the Fiat company had already been tasked by Major General Giulio Martini with the design of a 40-tonne armored vehicle with a 65mm gun in the turret and armor superior to an armored car. The Fiat design, from the pen of Carlo Cavalli (a technical director at Fiat) and Giulio Cesare Cappa (formerly a car designer at Aquila, famous for racing cars) was finally ready in January 1917. This design under the original contract was the ‘Automobile blindata d’assalto tipo 2000' and this design from Fiat was instead to now be commonly known as the ‘Fiat 2000’.

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