March 28th- April 1st

[3Harley]

Monday -  No School

Tuesday - Taking notes and Forum Poster leaders

• Italy After WWI
  • Not happy with Treaty of Versailles
    • Seemed Disrespected (not very powerful---because they weren't)
    • Wanted more land than what they got 
  • Joined the League of Nations and was a member from 1919 to 1937 
  • Washington Naval Power
  • 5 Power Pact 
    • Prevent naval build up 
    • Italy was known for submarines 
  • 9 power pact
    • China would be independent and free trade
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact
    • Countries Pledged not to use war 
• March on Rome
  • October 1922
    • Benito Mussolini journalists- don't go to war
    • Won and Fascists won and took over Italy- changed views on war 
    • Got expelled from school for stabbing kid with pen--- later an elementary teacher 
    • Takes over Rome in 1922 
• King Victor Emmanuel
  • Did not fight Mussolini's take over in Italy
  • Wanted to avoid a civil war and also wanted to jeep communists out of Italy 
• Established Fascism in Italy
  • A government led by a strong dictator
  • Stresses nationalism, militarism, and imperialism
  • Intimidation 
    • Nothing should be more important to you other than your country 
• Ethiopia Invaded by Mussolini-1936
  • Italy lost its Ethiopia colony in Africa at the 1896 Battle of Adua
  • Embarrassment of their history
    • White army defeated by a black army 
    • Wanted to re do that embarrassing defeat 
• Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War- 1936
  • Hitler and Mussolini send troops and weapons to help Franco defeat communists
  • Communists loose and Franco wins 
    • Franco was from Italy
    • Tested weapons 
• Italy's Goals in WWII
  • Make a new Roman Empire
  • Take the Mediterranean an "Italian Lake"
  • Take northern African colonies of Britain and France- Especially Egypt
  • Take over southeastern European-Greece and Albania
  • Take over parts of the Middle East 
• Italy Invasion of Albania and Greece and North Africa- 1940
  • Italy went after all the smaller weaker countries 
• Italy's Defeat -1943
  • Switched sides and became part of Allied Power
  • Surrendered but still under German control 
• Why Italy Lost
  • Not prepared militarily 
    • Germany always bailed them out
  • Too Spread out
  • People of Italy were forced to join the army instead of doing it voluntarily
  • Over all a weak Country 
• Impact of WWII on Italy 
  • 410,000 deaths
  • spent $94 billion 
  • Joined Allies in 1943

Wednesday - Notes on France

• maginol line
• focused on defensive tactics
• free french
  • charles de gaulle
• vichy french
  • petain
• invaded by germany
  • surrendered after a month

Thursday- More Notes

Friday - GB and Soviet Union

The 1920’s

• Signed 4,5,9 Power Pacts

• Joined league of nations

 

The Great Depression

 

1930’s - Road to war

• SIgns of threat from Germany

• Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement

 

WW2

• War declaration on Germany in 1939

• Winston Churchill appointment to prime minister

• Evacuation of British soldiers from Belgium

 

• USA joins the war

• The allies succeed in North Africa and attack Italy in 1943

• Allies close in on Berlin

• Hitler commits suicide in Germany

 

Battle of Britain

• Hitler wanted air superiority over royal air force and Britain

• The Luftwaffe targets RAF airfields and raids cities

• The british people show great resistance to the assault

• Germany fails to destroy British air defences

Great Britain’s Role in WW2

• Appeasement at Munich

• Declared war on Germany on September 3,1939 after the German invaded Poland

• Last allied country left standing was GB

• Battle of Britain- “We shall never surrender”- Churchill

• RAF

• GB served as a base for US and Free French forces

• D-Day invasion starting point

• Received the most Lend-Lease aid from US

• Lost the “most powerful country in the world” status after WW2

 

Soviet Union

War with Poland

• Polish-Soviet War

• Russia, Ukraine, Belarus hoped to fully occupy Poland

• Polish had taken over part of Ukraine

Soviet Union

• 60,000 killed and 80,000-157,000 prisoners

 

Bolshevik Revolution

• New government - Communism

 

Collectivisation and Nationalization

• Agriculture

• Great Turning Point

• Encourage food production

• State would decide how much to plant and how much peasants were paid, etc.

• Collectivisation (Government taking over the farms )

• Nationalization (Government taking over businesses of the country)