Italy

The United States went to war with Japan because of their attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The U.S. was more or less expecting war with Japan at some point, but not at the time and place the war began.

After President Roosevelt's speech to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941; Congress declared war on Japan. The 470 for and 1 against (the sole vote against came from a profound pacifist Representative. She later voted for war against Germany and Italy [or was not present during those votes]).

The United States went to war with Germany after Germany declared war on the United States on Dec. 11, 1941. The Congressional vote for this declaration was unanimous.

Italy pulled out of world war 1 because she had achieved her objective - gaining the territories promised to her in her arrangement with the Allies. Since before the war started, Italy was interested in the Austrian Littoral and a portion of Dalmatia.

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More than that they had to fight the French led by Napoleon 3, Austrians, Spanish and the Neapolitans.

Italy joined the Entente Powers as opposed to it's allies (the Triple Alliance powers: Germany and Austria-Hungary, the third being Italy istelf) because it had been promised territory in the Treaty of London. As WWI was a war that found its roots in territorial ambition, it was only natural that Italy would join on the side that would promise it land.

Valle d'Aosta is the smallest of the twenty regions in Italy.

They were Allies. But nearing the end when the Italians wanted to kick Mussolini out of power, Hitler sent in German troops to take control. He didn't want to lose the country, so he sent in his soldiers temporarily to fight the Allies and make sure Italy stayed its ally. But he didn't invade it in the way that he invaded other countries such as France.

Casualties for US troops serving in the Fifth Army in Italy from Sept. 9, 1943 to V-E Day are as follows:

KIA 19,475

WIA 80,530

MIA 9,637

Total 109,642

Richard V. Horrell

WW 2 Connections.com

From September 1943 to May 1945, the two Allied armies incurred 312,000 casualties of ALL types(includes the British 8th Army); 188,746 of them were by the US 5th Army.

Quoted from: US Army History (Center for Military History), Volume "Cassino to the Alps". (note: the Fifth Army included units that were British and other nationalities, so that may explain why this number is higher than the above.)

In WW2, Italy was under Fascist command of Mussolini

Because the Second Republic was a threat to fascism. If Spain was ruled by a fascist dictator, the Third Reich would take advantage of Spain's strategic position.

Additionally, despite his eventual deals with the Soviet Union, Hitler did not trust the Leftists in Spain and wanted to keep Spain out of Communist hands.

Rome expanded into central and southern Italy as a result of the Second and Third Samnite Wars (326-304 BC and 298-290 BC). She gained control of the whole of Italy in 192 BC. The conventional date given for the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire is 476 AD.

because Italy did not receive all the territory promised to it

Their flag

No. They lost to Slovakia 3-2 in the first round.

The Alps

Monaco, Monte Carlo, is wholly bordered by France....

Italy wasn't founded, it was unified.

the people who unified it were; Carmillo Benso conte di cavour, Giueseppe Garibaldi and Giueseppe Mazzini

The Romans came to dominate Italy by conquest and alliances. The political institution they formed was the empire under the republican form of government.

The Romans came to dominate Italy by conquest and alliances. The political institution they formed was the empire under the republican form of government.

The Romans came to dominate Italy by conquest and alliances. The political institution they formed was the empire under the republican form of government.

The Romans came to dominate Italy by conquest and alliances. The political institution they formed was the empire under the republican form of government.

The Romans came to dominate Italy by conquest and alliances. The political institution they formed was the empire under the republican form of government.

The Romans came to dominate Italy by conquest and alliances. The political institution they formed was the empire under the republican form of government.

The Romans came to dominate Italy by conquest and alliances. The political institution they formed was the empire under the republican form of government.

The Romans came to dominate Italy by conquest and alliances. The political institution they formed was the empire under the republican form of government.

The Romans came to dominate Italy by conquest and alliances. The political institution they formed was the empire under the republican form of government.

As a mother language about 70 million speak Italian As a Cultural language about 110 million speak Italian Giving a total of 180 million, with a world population of 6,700,000,000 This comes out at about 2.7% of the worlds population. More information is available on the link below

For four years as the Italian Republic and another nine years as the King of Italy.

The Italian armed forces in WW2 were never a major force, and in most cases, they were involved in minor, sideshow actions, such as their attacks against the tribesmen in Ethiopia, who had no armor, nor artillery, and traveled on camels.

When the Italians met modern well trained troops, they folded like a cheap suit, and surrendered by the thousands, only to happy to get out of the fighting alive. The Italian navy was a little better, and the Italian air force was OK but had poor equipment and planes to work with.

The Germans didn't trust the Italians to fight well, even in defense of their own country, and never relied on them to hold a position without having German troops behind them to keep them from running away from the front lines. The joke of that time was that the Italian tanks had one forward speed but four reverse gears, to be able to get away faster.

True the Germans didn't trust the Italians to fight, but they still used them. As the Axis forces experienced more defeats, the Germans began treat the Italian soldier as 2nd class soldier and not as an ally. By mid 1943, the Italian people and the soldiers were tied of fighting and not having better equipment.

However, there were times the Italian soldier excelled. On 13 September 1940, the Italian army in Libya crossed into Egypt and in four days they had pushed the British army back 60 miles. When the German VI Army was surrounded at Stalingrad, a column lead by the 6th Alpini Regiment broke thru the Russian lines and fought their way out of the encirclement.

still however they dragged Germany into Africa, and the balkans.

Germany didn't exactly invade Italy. Germany and Italy were allies since they formed their Rome-Berlin "axis" of power in 1937. When their alliance was finally formed, Italy's leader, Mussolini, asked Hitler to refrain from war so Italy could restore their army and re-equip them. But Hitler started the war in 1939 and Germany began conquering countries in Europe and Italy conquered nations in Africa. After a few years of figthing the British in North Africa, Italy's army was weakend. The Americans joined the war and helped the Allies drive the Germans & Italians our of Africa. The Allies then invaded Sicily in July 1943 and began bombing mainland Italy, including Italy's crown jewel---Rome. German troops were re-inforcing Italy to prepare to fight the Allies. The people were tired of war and didn't want their country with all their ancient cultural cities ruined by war. Through pressure from the King, Mussolini stepped down as dictator. The Germans knew that they could not trust Italy to remain their ally. The Italians tried to secretly negotiate for American paratroopers to land in Rome to protect their government. They intended to "join" the Allied forces but Churchill and other leaders would only accept surrender. The Italians delayed as Sicily fell to the Allies in August. British troops landed forces on the "toe" of Italy. When Italy detected an invasion convoy headed towards Italy, they announced on 8 Sept 1943 their surrender. On 9 Sept 1943, the Allies landed on mainland Italy just below Naples. The Germans took action to disarm the Italians so their soldiers could not fight for the Allies. The Germans began to round up Italians and send them to German concentration camps unless they would fight for the Germans under the Fascist Italian government lead by Mussolini. Many able-bodied men either escaped to the Allies or fought as partisans. Germany sent more divisions into Italy and carried the war to the Italian soil. Under the command of General Kesselring, the Germans fought a delaying campaign in the rough mountainous terrain for almost 20 months in some of the roughest fighting of the war.

Mussolini did many things to keep control in Italy. Four of the biggest things were instituting martial law and making himself dictator, forming an alliance with Germany, establishing a fascist regime, and enforcing very strict censorship laws.

There is an official statistic for pasta consumption in Italy, but without knowing the exact source (no pun intended), we believe that the average Italian eats something like 28 kilos of pasta per year.

That's more than double the next two great pasta easting countries, Venezuela and Tunisia.

Beacuse King Kong aint got nothing on ur mama

Italy gained its independence in 1861, with the Second War of Independence (the First War had basically failed). That year, the Italian State (first a Kingdom, from 1948 a Republic) was also established.

The two countries that owned most of Italy were the Austrian Empire to the North and the Borbons (who were Spanish) in the South; the rest of Italy was fragmented into many small kingdoms and shires. The Kingdom of Piedmont, governed by the Savoy dynasty, promoted two wars against Austria and the Borbons with the help of France. In 1861, most of Italy had reunited under the Piedmont crown. But it was not the end of it: Rome was retrieved from the Church State in 1870; a Third War of Independence, during which Italy was allied to Bismarck's Prussia against Austria, allowed for recovery of certain Northern regions that were still in Austrian hands; finally, after victory in the First World War the last Italian territories were reconquered to Italy.