Benito Mussolini Outline

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After the end of World War I, a worldwide economic depression hit during the 1930’s. Leaders began to win over the public by promising better lives and great economic futures. When they won power, they became dictators and controlled their nations by force. Some of these powerful men were Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo, and Adolf Hitler.

Benito Mussolini won power by appealing to the Italians who had gotten very little from the Versailles treaty. The treaty ended World War I but many Europeans hated it. Mussolini created a government run by militarism and racism, it was called fascism. It grew very popular, very quickly. By 1922, Mussolini and his Fascist army forced the Italy’s king to put him head of government. Mussolini soon banned

Army Chief of Staff Marshall appointed Eisenhower for the War Plans Division in Washington. On December 7, 1941, The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor in the Pacific.. The next day the US entered World War II on the side of the Allies. Over 2,300 Americans were killed. The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. A month later, the Allies invade and take the island of Sicily. On September 3, Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy. On June 6, 1944, D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans. A few months later, Paris was was liberated from German control. On December 16, the Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. The senior officer in the battle of the bulge was George S. Patton. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German

this was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners were loaded into trains. The Battle of Coral Sea was on May 8, 1942. this was was a major naval battle between the Japanese Navy and the United States and Australia air forces and navy. On 1942 to February 2, 1943, The Battle Stalingrad was a battle where in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad in Russia. The major for most of these battles was Chester Nimitz. He was in charge of the U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, for Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. The U.S also had internment camps. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the use of these camps and removed Japanese residents from their homes. Some Niseis were also put in the camps. Neseis were people born in North America but their parents were immigrants from Japan. Also in 1942, was the Manhattan Project. This was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear