Monday- Italy
Benito Mussolini- born July 1883, smart, disobedient, expelled for bullying, school teacher, pacifist, fought in a war and it changed his thinking. He was a rifle man in WWI, he started the fascist party in 1919 which is a dictator, emphasized aggressive nationalism, racism, imperialism, and socialism. Took power in 1922 and dissolved Italy's current government.
Homefront- what was done in the country during the war, saved paper, metal, and bones for the soldiers, planted victory gardens.
Battle Strategies- Mussolini sided with Hitler, worked with Nazi Germany, Italy attacked Mediterranean Sea, used submarines and Regina Marina.
Country battles- Italy declared war on Britain, Ethiopia , Greece, France, and Albania.
Impact- Surrendered territories in 1942 and 43, and then switched sides to fight Hitler. Communism became more popular after the war.
5 power pact- signed by Great Britain, US, Japan, France, and Italy and designed to not build up naval forces
Treaty of Versailles- they felt cheated because they didn't get much land
Tuesday- Keep taking notes about Italy (above)
Tuesday- germany
- Hermann Goring commits suicide two hours before his scheduled execution
- The total casualties is around 2 million
- The total cast was over 1.6
- Allies were Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, France, Belgium, and Poland
- Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II mas rapes took place both in connection with combat operation adn during the subsequent occupation
Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.
-Discuss basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc
-- 2 million casualties
total cost was over 1.6 trillion
-allies were italy, japan, hungary, romania, france, belgium, and poland
-Tell us about their leader(s) during WWII
-background-- HITLER----
born in austria, 5 siblings, wanted to be artist, suicide, leader 1934,
HEINRICH HIMMLER-
-grammar. officer candidate, second in command, head of gestapo, suicicide
joseph goebbles -
ocvtober , propaganda, suicide, rejected military, deformed leg, minister enlightment
operation barbarosa-
- the largest invasion of world history, hitlers biggst mistake of the war, code name for the german invasion of the soviet union. largest militatary attack,
battle of moscow-
- army split between east and west europe, heavy casuality figures (ONE OF THE THREE MAJOR BATTLES OF SOVIET UNION WWII)
battle of kursk-
battle of stalingrad-
turning point of WWII,
battle of britian-
- germany didnt invade, they just bombed .. luftwafee - german air force
treaty of versallies
finaical-money was worthless and money was severe then great depression set in
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Comments
Good job but you didn't do the weekly blog for Feb 16-20.