February 23 - 27

Monday:
I was absent.

Tuesday - Friday: Presentations and quizzes 

ITALY

-Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.

  • Treaty of Versailles
  • 5 Power Pact 
    • To keep country from thinking that they had to build up their military
  • 9 Power Pact
    •  Garrenteed independence on Japan
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact
    • Outlawed war
    • Itlay signed it 
    • Why was Italy upset after WWI: They didn't get enough land after WWI
    • Italy was really displeased with the treaty of Versaille
  • King Victor Emmanuel: He wasn't the guy making military descicion; was king of Italy 
  • Mussolini comes to power in 1922: he was a dictater; didn't kill group of peoples; he was shot while he was escaping; people didn't like him at the end, to fascime 

-Basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc

-Leader(s) during WWII

  • Benito Mussolini
    • Very smart
    • Teaching certificate
    • Fought in war, war changed him
    • Rifleman in WW1
    • Started Fascist Party
    • Fascism- a system led by a dictator, complete power
    • Very racial based
    • Took power in 1932
    • Failed in Hitler's eyes
    • Tried to escape, was found by Hitler's men
    • Shot, strung up for display
    • Nothing should be more important to you than your own country - natinalism 

-Impact of their Home front and propaganda and what it was like in their country during the war

  • Saved paper, metal, and bones to make weapons
  • Didn't understand the war

-Major battle strategies

  • Mussolini sided with Hitler
  • Worked with Nazi
  • Used submarines to attack

-Major battles that the country was involved in

  • Italy declares war on Britain
  • Invades Greece

-Other people/generals from their country in WWII that had a major impact on the war

-Why they won or lost the war

  • Didn't have many up to date weapons
  • Poor leadership in military
  • Not interested in war
  • military wasn't strong 
  • weren't prepared 
  • Germany had to help them all the time 
  • Italien troops were spread out too thin 

-Impact WWII had on the country

  • lost over 400,000 people 
  • spend $94 billion
  • Italy had joined the Allies in 43, US wanted to make sure that they get a democracy and not fall to communsim 
  • Became a member of NATO: our military lience with most European countries 
  • Became a memeber of the United Nations in 1955 

-Spanish Civil War

  • Generalissimo Francisco Franco: leader of communistis 
  • Hitler and Mussolini send troops and weapons to help Franco 
  • Spain was neutral (1936)
  • Hitler and Mussolini became "Buddies"
  • The earth is going surround Berlin and Rome, the axis is through Berlin and Rome - Mussilini said -> Axis powers: Germany, Italy and Japan
  • other powers which worked which Germany: Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Thailand, Hungary

-Italys goals:

  • make a new Roman Empire
  • Make the Meterranean an "Italien Lake"
  • Take over northern Africa 
  • take over southeast and middle eat Europe
  • -> way too much 

-First thing Italy does:

  • take over Albania (easy)
  • invasion of Greece (more difficult); Germany helped them 

-Italy's defeat in 1943

  • Germany took over much of the area Italy had 
  • Defeating Germany in Italy was much more harder 

GERMANY


Presentation: No Notes, because I have the presentation

Treaty of Versailles:

  • lost land to France, Belgium, Denmark, Czescholvakia, Poland; lost cities, companies and resources 
  • later Hitler invaeded all those countries in WW2
  • army was reduced to 100,000 men 
  • no tanks, no air force, small amount if ships 
  • had to pay $33 billion 
  • Germany had to take "war guilt clause"
  • League of nation was set up

-> focuse was to punish germany

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