Italy

They may have had a secret police, but there has been no evidence.

In June 1940, Italy's mobilised strength was 1,630,000. This would later rise to a peak of 2,363,000.

Mussolini once boasted of 8 million Italian bayonets but that was not credible or achieveable. At the outbreak of the war the Italian army had a strength of 73 divisions made up of 106 infantry regiments, 12 light infantry regiments, 10 mountain regiments and 12 cavalry regiments, 5 armored regiments, 32 artillery regiments and 19 engineer regiments. The average Italian infantry division was little smaller than the American infantry division. And out of the 73 infantry divisions, only 20 were fully manned and equipped. The problem with the Italian army was its equipment. It had 7,970 artillery pieces but only 246 had been manufactured since 1930. Many had been upgraded with pneumatic tires replacing old wooden wheels. Their aircraft, trucks and tanks were even more out of date. Their tanks were too small to combat a modern mechanized army. Source: "The Italian Army; 1940-45", Part 1, by Osprey 'Men-at-Arms' series.

Italy's about 116,000 square miles, and Japan is about 145,000 square miles in size.

The story is about a 11-12 year old boy named Tito that was a blind orphan that lived in Pompeii with his dog Bimbo. They practically lived under a wall that connected a gate. Then one day a volcano erupted and destroyed the whole town, but since

Tito was blind Bimbo had to lead him to safety but Bimbo died under a building...... it is a pretty sad story ;(

He wanted to re-establish the Roman Empire. The name of his movement -- Fascism -- was taken from the Roman fasces carried by magistrates as a mark of their authority. The fasces was a bundle of rods bound around an axe.

The Colosseum is at the center of Rome and is listed as part of the Center of Rome World Heritage site. It is very important because it allows the moderns the ability to see how the ancients lived. I was an engineering marvel for its time and was a testament to Romes Power and world standing at the time it was built. Short answer: yes it is important

Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army.

For infantry weapons: Mannlicher-Carcano M1891 6.5mm carbine -- updated to M91/31 Carcano Carcano M1938TS 7.35mm carbine Bretta M1938A sub-machine gun Breda M1930 6.5mm heavy machine gun - bipod mounted Breda M1937 8mm heavy machine gun - tripod mounted Fiat-Revelli Model 1914 machine gun Bretta M1934 9mm pistol (predecessor to the US Army side arm used today) Glisenti Model 1889 revolver Model 1910 automatic pistol Grenades: Model 1935 , SCRM model 1935 Breda Model 1935 Lee Harvey Oswald bought a Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5mm carbine through a mail order catalog which was used in the assassination of Presiden J.F. Kennedy.

The power sharing arrangement that the fascist had in the Italian governments in the 1920s helped to prepare some of its members to handle parts of the economy well when the global depression hit. The investment in what we call "infrastructure" was an appropriate public use of money. The modernization of healthcare in the 1930s put many women through medical schools so they could staff the village and town clinics built as part of the public works program. These useful public works and the hydroelectric plants created to power the "re-birth" of the Roman Empire under Mussolini and his fascist technocrats planned to build and rule. The move towards autarky in the 1930s was a wasteful and foolish plan to be self-sufficient in a way that Italy never was during the actual era of the Roman Empire.

So while the public health and the infrastructure spending was appropriate and helpful to Italian society, war and autarky were economically disastrous distortions of a nationalist economic system. The disaster that was the "struggle for wheat" and the "struggle for iron" and entry into war on the side of Germany sank the Italian economy. Ultimately Mussolini's will to create a self-sufficient militaristic state trumped the good of an advanced public health system and an advanced public building program that relieved the effects of the great depression and provided a modern road system that aided commerce.

In balance the modernization of the Italian economy .in the 1920s-1930s under the fascist leadership of Mussolini accomplished the task that other European nations and the United States accomplished in the 1910s through progressive and socialist governments. The corporatist state under the "progressive" fascists was similar to the accomplishments of the pro-business associationalist Republicans of the 1920s US. The public spending of the fascists in the 1930s was more targeted and less restricted than the moderate governments of Great Britain, France and the United States. There were admirers of Mussolini's control of the labor unions in many countries from Argentina, Brazil and China to the United Kingdom and the United State,s where the Luce family's publishing empire promoted Italian style fascism and the corporatist state for "getting the trains to run on time." It was a high price to pay, switching from inefficient, elected, representative government to a fascist dictator just to crush the labor unions, but members of the upper class in the US and UK were interested in the idea. Fortunately the public in those countries were not interested in making a switch to Italian fascism.

During Marco Polo's expeditions to where we now call Asia, Marco Polo is reknown for introducing Italy to spaghetti (originally from China) from which the Italians developed their own variations and production techniques

All three countries are republics and members of the European Community and use the euro as currency .

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Topwards the Pact of London (26th april 1915)Italy wanted to gain Trentino and South Tyrol (until the natural border of Brennero), Venezia Giulia (Trieste...), Istria except Fiume, part of Dalmatia and many adriatic islands

Benito Mussolini. Mussolini started his political career in the early 1900's after the end of the first world war as a journalist and a socialist. He soon got caught in the rightwing hysteria that was taking place in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, and helped to organize the Black Fascist League. He was able to take over the country but still allowing the King to officially head the country. In the 1930's, he was not fond of Adolf Hitler but eventually by 1938, to ally himself to the Nazi dictator. Mussolini never did share Hitler's antisemitism and never did carry out any actions against Italian Jews. Mussolini was relegated to a junior partner because the Italian military disgraced itself over and over again in North Africa, Albania, Greece and even in France when she invaded Southern France but was stopped by the French. Mussolini contributed large forces to the Soviet Union but suffered major losses, especially during and after the Battle of Stalingrad. The final drama was when the Allies conquered Sicily and invaded Italy. They even bombed Rome which doomed Mussolini. He was captured by partisans in the northern region of Italy in 1944 but was rescued by German special forces. Eventually he was arrested along with his mistress and was executed in Milan in early 1945. Both were strung up-upside down and spat on by thousands of angry Italians. Hitler was notified about his execution which led him to commit suicide and not be captured by the Russians!

Because of his majorely facist (forceful) ways, Mussolini was hated among his people and after Italy fell in 1945, his country began to revolt and start a revoluton. Fearing for his saftey, Mussolini attempted to leave Italy, but was discovered by revolutionaries and kidnapped.

He was violently killed. He was hung upside-down, among several of his highest officers, from a low bridge, until the force of his blood running to his head ultimately killed him. It was extrremley painful and gruesome, as his head slowly bulged from the weight of the blood and his brain burst from too much fluid in his skull. His body was then dragged through the streets by a horse as revolutionaries paraded and cheered.

Italy's main contribution was in tying down Austro-Hungarian forces in NE Italy. It was the site of many see-saw battles between the two that never really had much impact on the war as a whole from what I've read.

A traditional Christmas food in Italy is Panettone. Panettone is a sweet bread which you eat with a hot beverage or a sweet wine; it comes from the Italian word 'panneto'.

Germany conquered: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Greece, Serbia

Under Control by Germany: Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Italy

Italy: Ethiopia, Egypt

portions of the Soviet Union as the separate states that Germany conquered: Estonia, Bylorussia, Ukraine, Crimea, Lithuania, Latvia,

Japan: Manchuria, parts of the Soviet Union, parts of China, the Philippines, Burma, Korea, the Indies, parts of New Guinea, Siam, French Indo-China, Formosa,

* Because Italy realized that the Central Powers (the side that they originally were on) were losing, and Italy, not heavily invested in the causes behind the war, wished to gain the port city of Fiume, which was currently owned by Austria-Hungary. When it was evident that they would not receive Fiume by staying with the Central Powers, Italy joined forces with the Allies, who agreed that Italy could have Fiume, if she could capture it.

As of 2020, it is estimated that there are around 50,000 homeless people in Italy. This number fluctuates over time due to various factors such as economic conditions, social policies, and other local dynamics. Efforts are being made by the government and NGOs to address this issue and provide support to those experiencing homelessness.

I don't think Italy had city states. There are regions of Italy, and cities, like Tuscany and Venice, but not necessarily city states. Ancient Greece had city states such as Athens and Sparta, though.

Italy agreed with some of the points, but was miffed that they did not get all the territories they were promised for joining the war on the side of the Allies (they were part of an Alliance with Germany & Austria-Hungary, but did not join them).

Italy liked:

1) Germany had to pay reparations for the damage they had done to some of our coal mines they had destroyed.

2) Italy would acquire a portion of the Tyrolean Alps

Italy disliked:

1)Italy did not receive the Dalmatian coast/Fiume

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