Today we started by reviewing for Germany a little more. Then we got back into Ital. Facism is government that has all power, that's what Italy was. Italys role in World War 2 was they helped Germany out a lot. At first Mousillini wasn't a big fan of Hitler, but they eventually started to see eye to eye, and became close allies. There was a lot of fighting in Italy in WW2. They were one of the bigger campaign areas for American troops. Bfore the end of the war Italy hung and killed Mousilini. They were looking for a more democratic government.
The Treaty of Versailles didn't really impact Soviet Union much. The Bolshovic Revolution took place, and after WW1 Germany and the Soviet Union both lost land. Prior to Communism Russia had a different type of government. The "king" was called a "tzar". Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid 1920's. He had these things called 5-year plans. He wanted to increase agricultural and industrial things within 5 years. it started slowly, but eventually the economy got better. He started a process called nationalization, and collectiveization. These basically said that they'd be payed like a factory worker, and to hve fun. They fought back. They wanted to control their own farms and buisnesses. More people died under the hands of Stalin than they did Hitler. ***Stalin was building Tanks&guns before food, and people were starving, and everything. There were a couple years of power struggle between Stalin and Tratszki. Tratszki was the leader of the Soviet Union for awhile, then he fled and was killed in mexico. Goals of Stalin were to improve the economic and agricultural output.
Stalins military was called the Red Army. At first they were defensive because people were tying to invade them. As the Soviets fell back they had the Scortched Earth Policy. They would demolish anything so that the Germans couldn't use that stuff. Soviets Allies at first were Germany. Throughout most of the war Great Britain, the US, and France were their allies. None of them really liked them though because they were communists. WW2 impacted the Soviet Union because afterwards Stalin was afraid of being invaded. He sent a lot of people to Siberia because he couldn't trust him. They were a major power after WW2. During the war they had the highest casualties. If Hitler wouldn't have invaded the Soviet Union we probably wouldn't have won WW2.
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