Monday: Japan presentation. Like to the key notes here. After it we started with Italy
Tuesday: Presentation from Italy
-Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.
- March on Rome
- October 28th, 1922
- Mussolini led members of the fascist party (Blackshirt) to Rome to seize power of Italian government
- Italy Joining the Axis power
- Rome- Berlin Axis October 21, 1936
- Stated the all countries of Europe will one day rotate around the Rome- Berlin axis
- Francisco Franco- General- Spanish Civil War- Fascist leader
-Discuss basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc
-Tell us about their leader(s) during WWII
- Benito Mussolini
- Organized a fascist revolution in Italy
- Came to power 1922
- Turned Italy into a legal dictatorship in 1925
- Founder of Fascism
- Allied with his friend Adolf Hitler
- Allies invade in 1943 and he is voted out of power and arrested
- Rescued from prison by Germany special forces
- Giovanni Messe
- Famous Italian General, Political and Field Marshall
- Considered the greatest general of WWII
-Discuss the impact of their Homefront and propaganda and what it was like in their country during the war
- The Italian propaganda was used to unify the nation and create a modern Roman Empire
- Was also used to make the enemies
-Discuss major battle strategies
- Invasion of Italy
- Stalin wanted a second front opened in Europe
- Allies knew they couldn't invade France in 1943
- Churchill thought of Italy as the "soft underbelly of the Axis"
- Germany knew this and prepared to defend Italy without their help
-Discuss major battles that the country was involved in
- Operation Torch
- British troops from the east through Libya
- US and British troops landed in Morocco and Algeria and advanced west
- Pinned the Germany and Italian troops into the small county Tunisia
- Hurt the Italians badly and they lost all their African colonies
- Battle of Britian
- Italy sightly participated in the battle
- They sent around 200 aircraft carrying 1,500 lbs of bombs
- The Mediterranean
- Crucial to the success of the Italian forces
- Fought for control of the trade
- Axis never took full control pf the Mediterranean
- couldn't stop the Allies from moving men and supplies trough the Suez Canal to help the war effort
- Battle of Taranto
- British bi planes torpedoed ans sank much of the large ships in the Italian surface fleet in harbor at Taranto in November, 1940
- Italians lost
- Battle of Cape
- March 1941
- Italians lost
- British had 4 light cruiser lightly damages and 3 killed
-Discuss other people/generals from their country in WWII that had a major impact on the war
-Discuss why they won or lost the war
- Country got destroyed
- Mussolini was kicked out of power
- the Nazi Government still maintained control
- The postwar situation was not very good
- Italy nearly became a Communist country
- US created the Marshall Plan to help rebuild Italy's economy after the war
-Discuss the impact WWII had on the country
Comments
Good but you are missing week 3.