Remove the spacing before the itemized list

Question

Anybody knows how I can remove the spacing before my itemized list?

\begin{document}   
 {\bf main text }\hfill{year}\\
    {title}\\
    \renewcommand\labelitemii{$\square$} 
    \begin{itemize}
    \setlength{\itemsep}{0.05em}
    \item[$\square$] item 1
    \item[$\square$] item 2
    \item[$\square$] item 3
    \item[$\square$] item 4\\
    \end{itemize}
\end{document}

Answer 1

Never use \\ at the end of a paragraph or before a display constrict such as a list or equation, TeX will warn about such use with a warning about badness 10000 (it's maximum measure of bad typesetting) and produce a spurious extra line of the paragraph which looks like vertical space but is not space and does not combine with vertical space in a useful way.