Yay, March.Continuing today with movie blog discussions.Shindler's(sp?) List:a german nazi guy tries to saves as many jews as possible by employing them in his factory.moving on....idk. i was doing forum stuff, but i think they moved on to just WW2 discussions....hitler got married the day he died.nick watched defiance. bruns must be told this multiple times.people in movies are usually good-looking. or funny. either or, both?Countries! thats what was happening. i missed one, but im pretty sure its one we talked about before. germany.Italy:gained land from austria-hungary thanks to the treaty of versailles. thought they should have gotten more land tho.Mousillini was the leader in WW2, but italians hated him and got him out of there. but italy had a constitutional monarchy or heiarchy or something.mousillini - his mom was devout catholic, his father was atheist. mom made him go to a catholic school, where he was explelled for stabby somebody in the neck with a penknife. he was atheist, and somehow came to power in a country full of catholics. the King the time was afraid of war, so he put moussillini in charge cuz he thought he would be able to stop the communists. even though the catholic church didnt like mousolini, they let him be in charge on the condition that he made catholicism the national religion and require it to be taught in schools. mousolini agreed because he knew he couldnt discriminate against 90% of the population and expect to stay in power.Facism: justification of war, ready to go to war, glorify your country! um, usually to do with dictators....its a focus on military. not always a bad thing, but...absolute power corrupts absolutely. dictators may start out fine and dandy and nice and all, but with lots of power, you start doing whatever you want, and people start disliking you, and you get paranoid, so you get rid of the people you are suspisicous of, so you've got a rebellion on your hands, so you get assassinated. yep.so Mousolini allowed catholicism, fought communism, "made the trains run on time", etc. but he got italy into the war, which destroys the country, makes it abattlefield for germany and usa. italy was not so strong military-wise.his goals were to control north africa, gain land, make the meditaranian an italian lake....italy attacked ethiopa from italian somali land and lost, which was embarrassing for them. they tried again later and won, for a short time. africa was involved in WW2 because it was full of european colonies.at the start of the war, italy was an axis power, allied with hitler because they wanted to be with whoever was strong. after they got rid of mousolini (he didnt die til 1945, so he fled before that), italy was an allies power. they regretted everything mousolini had done, they really hated him. so italy was an easy win for us.
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