more discussion of coursee.
first, we finished up germany soo here it goes
Germany
Hitler gave people jobs, mostly having to do with the military because he was trying to make their military strong again since it was depleted by the Treaty of Versailles
Blitzcreig..(sp?) was a major militaristic strategy
goal was to get the land that had been taken from them in Treaty of Versailles
Germany was an agressor in this war.. they were always on the offensive side of things
After WWII--
Hitler shot himself and his new wife took pills and killed herself too
Nazis were no longer able to be in power & had to go on trial
Italy
the Treaty of Versailles and other treaties let Italy gain land from
Mussolini came to power, but Italy actually had a monarchy
the king let him do whatever he wanted as long as he let the king keep his power
background Mussolini was an athiest.. his mom was a catholic and his dad was an athiest
his mom foced him to go to catholic school, but he was expelled for stabbing someone. somehow came he came into power in a country that was all catholic.
King Emmanuel did not like Mussolini, but he was afraid of communism and he knew that Mussolini could stop it.
the catholic church made a deal with mussolini that he could be the leader of the country if the country's official religion is theocracy and it must be taught in schools.
Mussolini helped Italy's view of facism (build up of military/ready for war)
he also made things more efficient
BAD THINGS MUSSOLINI DID:
he got them into the war.. they weren't really a strong country, so going to war really wasn't the best decision.
Mussoini's goals--wanted to control north africa, conquered ethiopia, left league of nations, built up military, helped in the spanish civil war.. ironic that the pope said Mussolini was the man that God sent them.. ? and he was athiest.
AXIS powers. (germany, italy, japan)
Italy eventually switched over to the allies
WWII impacted italy by creating depression.. everything sorta just turned bad
lots of destruction/death/fighting/debt from the war
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