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
- Not happy with Treaty of Versailles
- 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
- October 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
- Not prepared militarily
- 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)
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