today we did blog discussion
italy:
benito was shot and killed
the italian gov't became more of a democracy after the war
soviet union:
the treaty didn't do much for them; they lost a little land to poland
they were communist
valetemere lenon was the leader but joseph stalin took his place later on
lenin wanted to take control of everything for a short time and then the gov't would disapear and the people would take over
stalin wanted a industrial powerhouse country; which he got
5 year plans: 5 year goals and completing them; build up the economy
collectivization- taking over farms
nationalization- soviet gov't took over factories and businesses and ppl would belong to gov't
stalin actually killed more people than hitler
they wanted to defeat germany eventually
they wanted to halt german advances
they wanted to get back land that they lost in ww1
they wanted to strengthen their borders
soldiers were sent up by germany to build airports and stuff; they were attacked by germany
their strategy was later to just survive
soviets were to destroy everything when they left places so that germany didn't find anything that was their
soldiers were not supposed to retreat or they would die
they agreed not to fight germany
germany invaded them and then the soviet union became an allie power
lost an unbelievable amount of people!
stalin remained in power
their land was destroyed
they somehow came out of the war as one of the world's superpowers
japan:
treaty gave them land: german islands
they had a constitutional monarchy
herohito was the emperor; he was too good to deal with military issues
hideki tojo actually had all the power with the military and what not
1920s they joined the league of nations
they signed the washington naval conference; they would respect colonies, promote free trade with china, limit their naval size, garuntee chinese independence (US, great britain, france, japan)
outlawed war
japan did not want another war like ww1
tojo came to power by military take over
didn't become the dictator until pearl harbor
hirohito wanted to expand a lot but didn't want the US and great britain to interfere
wanted to expand into asia for natural resources
bombed pearl harbor because it is were the US naval base was
they attacked pearl harbor to keep us out of the war
admiral yamamoto was the one who came up with the plan to attack pearl harbor
fdr wanted to go to war to help great britain but the US wasn't ready to go to war
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