Continued blog discussions again today on countries impacts and place in World War 2.
Italy - We helped pay to rebuild Italy after the war. Benito died after it.
Soviet Union - The treat of Versailles didn't do much to the Soviet Union; some land was lost. Joseph Stalin was in power during the war. He changed the course of soviet history. He helped and harmed the country. Stalin set 5 year plans in how the country would change. The first one was collectivization, this was the process of taking away individual farms and then the government had ownership of them. The next was nationalization which was when the Soviet Union took over industry. He wanted to secure borders and build up the Soviet Union through the five year plans. Stalin came up with the scorched earth policy. He told soldiers to burn and destroy everything in their path so that Germans couldn't take anything that was left behind. World War 2 majorly decreased the population of the Soviet Union.
Japan- There were two leaders during WWII: Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohito. The joined the League of Nation in the 20's. They also signed the Washington Able Conference. Along with US, Great Britian, Japan. This limited their naval size and agreed to the open door policy. They also out lawed war and decided it wasn't a way to settle disputes. Tojo came to power by taking over the military power. Hirohito became the leader through bloodlines; he came to power from his family. Their goal were to expan into Asia for the natural resources that were there. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because it was an easy target and we had a large Naval base their. They bombed Pearl Harbor in hopes that it would keep us out of the war.
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