Monday- Italy presents
-Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII. Economic problems before the war- were not happy thought they should have got more land- just joined the league of nations- 5 power act signed by U.S Japan France and Italy- to prevent arms race or to build up Naval army-
-Discuss basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc alliances were the Axis powers- Civil war in Italy 1943-1945
-Tell us about their leader(s) during WWII
-background Mussolini Born in 1883 in a small village- was a journalist- Joined the army in 1917- went back to being a journalist using this he was able to convince people about the benefits of fascism-fascism is a form of government-imperialism wanting to expand the country- he was arrested in 1943
-how they came to power
-how they lost power Mussolini and his mistress were shot by two communist-on April 29,1945 Mussolini and his mistress were hung upside down
-Discuss the impact of their Homefront and propaganda and what it was like in their country during the war
-Discuss major battle strategies
-Discuss major battles that the country was involved in Italy attacked small countries and beat them pretty easy- they switched sides from Axis to allies- went to fight in the soviet union- fought mostly in Northern Africa- Italy invades Ethiopia wanted to undo a lost that happened a couple of years before
-Discuss other people/generals from their country in WWII that had a major impact on the war Pietro Badoglio born september 28, 1871 was the only one to surrender-Ugo Cavallero was a WW1 general- Giovanni Messe best Italian General- Arturo Riccardi became admiral in 1940 lost position when Mussolini died
-Discuss why they won or lost the war lost when they were part of the Axis powers, but then they switched over and joined to allied power
-Discuss the impact WWII had on the country Italy lost 454,600 People About 94$ billion dollars were spent for Italy by 1945- Men didn't want to fight or have the desire to-
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Where are the German notes?