WWII in Color
WWII in Color is an hour documentary of WWII in color. It starts out with the treaty of Laissez Faire. Laissez Faire was a treaty saying that Germany had to reduce their army to 100,000 people and have no tanks, air force, or submarines and minimal ships. Hitler got around this by creating airplane clubs for civilians and he would also train people for the army and send them back as civilians and then when he needed them they were ready to fight because they had already been trained to fight. Hitler ended up breaking all the rules for the Laissez Faire treaty including making an air force. He made his air force called Luftwaffe and had about two and a half thousand planes in it.
The Nazis also looked into making tanks for their military but didn't want to make them useless. They watched other counties do tests on their tanks before they did anything and then when they figured out what they wanted they made the fastest tanks called Panzers that were very mobile and still had heavy artillery on them. When they would use the tanks they would charge through the front line with them and then the people on foot had less to worry about. Their idea was to hit them as hard as they could at the beginning to weaken them so much they would either surrender or they could defeat them without question.
The Japanese troops did a lot of things that their own government didn't even tell them to do but a lot of the things they did worked. They would go into a country and take it over without permission from their government but if it was successful their leader liked it. Japanese soldiers would go into a cave and there would be a little window that they would look out of to shoot and they would usually be on a hill so the enemy would have to climb up it. That was also bad for them because we would just shoot a flame thrower in the cave and they would come out on fire and we would shoot them.
Benito Mussolini was the leader of the fascist party in Italy. He became the leader of Italy and then formed an alliance between Italy and the axis powers including Germany. Benito Mussolini was first for socialism and then changed to be for fascism. Fascism was a government in ancient Rome and he liked how it worked so he wanted to bring it back.
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Comments
Treaty of Laissez Faire? Do you mean Versailles? Again, no personal thoughts.