Powerful people of WWII: Mussolini and Charles de Gaulle
There were many powerful people in World War II, and among those people where Mussolini and Charles de Gaulle. First I will tell you about Mussolini (Mussolini). Mussolini was born in 1883, July 29, in Predappio Italy, and his full name is Benito Amilcare Mussolini. (Mussolini). Mussolini’s father was Alessandra Mussolini, his mother was Rosa Maltoni Mussolini, his sister is Edvige Mussolini, and his brother’s name was Arnaldo Mussolini (Mussolini). When Mussolini was 39 he went into being the prime minister (Mussolini). He joined the army and founded fascism and he did that in the same year(Mussolini’s fight). Mussolini adopted two daughters
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2nd I will tell you about Charles de Gaulle. He was born November 22, 1890 and was a French military leader and he was born in Lille France. His mother and fathers name was Henri de Gaulle and his mother’s name was Jeanne Maillot de Gaulle. His brother’s name is Pierre de Gaulle, his other brother’s name is Jaquse, his sister’s name is Marie Angus de Gaulle and his other sister’s name is Xavier de Gaulle (Charles de gaulle).
His dad worked in the professor of history. His mother did not work. When he worked in the military he started in 1912. He lead the French military and was a the general. Charles de gaulle has a wife and kids. the kids name are Philipe and Elizabeth and Anne de Gaulle (de gaulle). his wifes name is Yvonne de Gaulle (charles). In 1936 he over landed France. in 1945 he was named undersecretary of state. when charles de Gaulle was named the president of state, in 1958 he was elected president of France and they said he was a brave man and worked hard to be a president. His time as president was marked by the student and worker uprisings in 1968, which he responded to with an appeal for civil order. He created a nuclear bomb as a president and was very famous because he had so many popular things go on in his life and dramatic. he had a very good life as a kid and didn't want his older life to
Marquis de Lafayette was a very tactical and smart war general. He was very respected and was The Hero of Two Worlds because he fought for France and America. Marquis was born on September 6, 1757 in Chavaniac, France. Marquis was very young when he was first commissioned an officer, he was only 13 years old. He started to the travel the New World to seek glory. Then he was made a Major General at the age of 19. When he was first a major general he was given no troops to commission at the time. In the Battle of Brandywine he was injured and had to force an early retreat. He also served in the Battle of Rhode Island. In the middle of that war he had to return to France to receive more troops. After those battles he sailed to America in 1780
Douglas Macarthur was born on 26th January 1880, in Little Rock, Arkansas to General Arthur Macarthur and wife, Mary Pinckney Hardy. Like his father, he decided to pursue a military career and entered the army. He went to West Point Military Academy and graduated as a valedictorian in 1903. He began his career as an engineering officer in the army but climbed through the ranks and became a General. He was also nominated and given several honors and awards throughout his lifetime. He was known to be aggressive, radical and brave, which led him to make some decisions that were not generally approved (McCullough).
Many would say that Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were both awful men and even worse leaders in their countries. But, if you really sat down to think about how they ran their form of government, they were actually two of the most vainglorious leaders in the world at that time. Hitler was able to go from being a soldier in World War I to being the supreme leader of Germany. Benito was able to go from being a brief schoolteacher, to being a 10-year journalist.
...somehow, were one of the cause that lead to World War II. It was one of the darkest periods of human being, but we could not deny the truth that Mussolini and Hitler were the excellent leaders.
Douglas Francis MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880, at the Arkansas Barracks in Little Rock, Arkansas. His parents were Arthur MacArthur Jr. and Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur. His mother was often called by her nickname “Pinky”. Since her brothers both fought for the South in the Civil War, they refused to attend her wedding, which made her upset. Douglas was raised in a military family in the American Old West. He had two brothers: Arthur III and Malcolm. Even after Malcolm died of the measles in 1883, when Douglas was just 3 years old, the family succeeded to maintain a healthy relationship even though things wouldn’t be the same without Malcolm.
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s strong and experienced leadership in the United States military was the main contribution of him becoming one of the greatest and mot successful presidents. Born on October 14, 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower had a role of leadership. During his high school career he was a leader on the baseball and football field. Once he graduated high school he took off from school for to years to go work with his uncle and father at the Bell Springs Creamery and worked as a fire fighter. He acted as a leader by using his money to help pay for his brothers tuition for college. In 1911, Dwight was accepted into West Point Academy, this was the start of his military career that would take him far in his life.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Texas in 1890 into a family of seven sons (American Decades). He was a bright man all throughout his life and achieved many goals that would be impossible for any ordinary person. World War II gave him a chance to use his talent for organization to lead the United States to victory (American Decades). He is famously known for his courageous acts during the invasion of North Africa, D-Day, and for his great communication skills.
He was born on September 6, 1757, in Chavaniac, France to a prestige’s military family. By the age of twelve he was a very rich orphan. Life moved at a very fast pace in the 1700’s and Marquis de Lafayette found himself joining the royal army at the age of fourteen. Then at the age of sixteen he allied himself to one of one of the richest families in France by marring fourteen year old Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles. Her family was also closely related to the king.
Benito Mussolini decided to get Italy involved in World War II. This decision had a negative impact on Italy. After World War I, the Italian people were angry that Italy did not get more land from the peace settlement. Getting Italy involved in World War II was not necessary. Getting involved in this war could have easily been avoided, but Mussolini decided to help and tries to give Italians what they wanted. What the Italians hoped to gain from World War I was never received. The gaining of land for Italy seemed as if it was a necessity to Mussolini. To gain more land, Mussolini led Italy into World War II. Things did not work out as expected for Mussolini. Thinking he had everything under control and that everything would go his way, things backfired and many men were lost during World War II. He also made Italy mar...
He was a man who made French stronger, provided his own legacy and impression that will most
Exploring the Similarities and Differences Between the Foreign Policies of Mussolini and Hitler Similarities - Both foreign policies geared to achieving great power status o Hitler: lebensraum, wanted to have living space for the expansion of the German race and control over other groups o Mussolini: wanted control over Mara nostrum, Abyssinia, …an empire - fascist states o had anti communist feelings; o both signed anti comintern pact 1937 against USSR o Spanish civil war against communism helping Franco secure power o Signed pact of steel in may 1939, a full military alliance - unhappy with status quo, wanted international prestige o national grievances on Versailles, people wanted to change Versailles o Hitler, product of WW1 who was angry at Versailles and wanted to see Germany achieve great power status o Mussolini; felt that Italy had been treated unfairly at Versailles and also waned to change the status quo o Because of this both built up armies, navies and air forces.. Italian air force to block out the sun + German luftwaffe… - both Hitler and Mussolini, used diplomacy and force as well as aggression to get what they wanted o Mussolini over Greece where it undermined the LofN, used force to take Abyssinia 1935 o Hitler used the threat of force to take Austria and diplomacy as well as force to take Czech and Saarland in 193… - by 1939 both had a common enemy; Britain and France - both were aggressive nationalists and glorified warw - both wanted empires; abysinnia and lebenstraum to distract from problems at home.. Differences - Hitler was more clear in his aims and ideals whereas Mussolini was more vague and opportunistic o Although Hitler did take advantage of opportunities such as Abyssinia crises to remilitarise Rhineland he was more structured in his aims for Lebensraum, unification of all Germans, building up the army and recovering lost territories § Illustrated by Hitler’s success after success ; Rhineland in 36,
Mussolini allied himself to Hitler, trusting him to prop his leadership. Benito Mussolini rose into power in the wake of World War I and became Prime Minister of Italy in 1922. Mussolini’s destiny was to rule Italy as a modern Caesar and to re-create the Roman Empire which means that he also wants to gain control not only in his own country, but in other countries as well by waging wars over other countries like Libya, Ethiopia, Albania, and Somalia. He wanted to gain the Mediterranean-African empire through was against French. On April 28, 1945, Mussolini was assassinated. Insurgents captured him while he was on a run because, the German surrender made Mussolini to take off, and then shot him.
Alfred Dreyfus was born into an upper middle class on October 9th 1859 in Mulhouse, Alsace. He was the youngest of seven children in the family. Alfred Dreyfus was an artillery officer in the French military, he was of Jewish background and was convicted of treason in 1894; these charges became one of the most rigid political scandals in history (Derfler). Dreyfus spent his early years on a textile manufacture in Mulhouse, but he grew up in Paris along with his younger brother Mathieu Dreyfus (Dreyfus). Dreyfus attendd Ecole Polytechnique where he graduated and obtained military training, he also attended the Ecole Supreiure de Guerre where he was acknowledged as a bright young artillery officer
Francisco Franco was born in 1892 in Ferrol Spain. The father of Francisco Franco was a officer in the Spanish Naval Administrative Corps and his mother was conservative in the upper middle class and a Roman Catholic. The previous 4 generations of Franco’s family and his older brother were also naval officers. Franco was destined to follow that path. Due to reduced admissions to the Naval Academy Franco was forced to enlist in the army. Franco was just a mere 14 years old when he entered the Infantry Academy in 1907. He then graduated three years later and volunteered for active duty in the Spanish Morocco campaigns and was stationed there in 1912.
World War Two was fought by almost all of the major powers. After the end of World War I, and the world wide depression, the Second World War creeped on the horizon. After the Treaty of Versailles which demilitarized Germany, the German people elected a leader for Germany that would hopefully rid them of their economic, political, and social problems caused by the Treaty of Versailles. (Georg Franz-Willing) This leader would be the future dictator of Germany and the leader of the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler. Following Germany’s invasion of Poland, the Allied powers declared war on Germany. These two opposing sides each had their advantages and factors that would lead them to be successful against their rivals. Among these advantages, the military leaders during the war were extremely influential in the course of the war. While the United States forces had great leaders such as General Marshall, General Eisenhower, George S. Patton and the UK had military leaders such as Field Marshal Alan Brooke and Hugh Dowding, the German forces had one of the most skilled and respected military leaders of the 20th century, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.