Italy in WW2

• Britain and France wanted Mussolini as an ally against Hitler the league of nations failed to protect their countries.

Italy is a republic, so it does not have a king. It has a president. The current President is Giorgio Napolitano.

Benito Mussolini had power from about 1922 to 1944.
1922 to 1944
Benito Mussolini ruled from December 24, 1925 to July 25, 1943.

The Abyssinian emperor went to the League of Nations to convince them to force the Italians back. However, the League was made up of imperialist countries who didn't care if an African nation was taken over and even if it wanted to help, it had no army to enforce its decrees.

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Then... if you're talking about the past culture... Italy (heart of the roman empire) has left a deep impact in the western world. Legislative work..., languages (spanish, french, portugiese, romanian, etc, etc, etc.) Italian itself, of course, is a child of latin, the Romans' language.

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For the same reason that British people don't speak Old English.

Much of Southern Europe spoke Latin 2000 years ago, due to conquest by the Roman empire. But, like any language will do over time, the words and structure gradually changed over the centuries, until the language could no longer be called "Latin". Of course, after the Roman empire fell apart, there was on controlling authority to ensure that the language changed in the same way over the entire range of Latin-speaking areas.

So, in France, Latin evolved into French. In Spain, it evolved into Spanish. And in Italy, it evolved into Italian. But that's an oversimplification. In reality, there were THOUSANDS of different dialects that evolved from the Latin parent language. Most of those in France were similar enough that they could all be lumped together and called "French". Ditto for Spanish and Italian. But I don't want you to get the impression that there is some huge diversion between Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish. Even after 2000 years, the languages are STILL similar enough that a French speaker who had never been exposed to Spanish would be able to understand at least the general meaning of something said by a Spanish speaker.

Just like Latin, Old English changed over time, to the point where it could no longer be called "Old English". Technically, that's not true. Before it evolved, there was no "New" English, so Old English was simply called "English". But, however you call it, it evolved over time to the point where it could no longer be called the same language. So linguists started calling it "Old English", because no one spoke it anymore, and called the new language "English".

But because English, both new and old, was confined to a small area compared to Latin, its evolution did not diverge as greatly as Latin's did. So the linguists didn't have to split it like the split up the languages that evolved from Latin.

But it's still the same principle. Languages change over time, and at some point, the change is so great that you can't call it the same language anymore. A comment that has nothing to do with the question but instead nitpicks at a minor part of the above answer without quite contradicting itSome of what was said is true, but not all of it, i know Italian since i was a child because my father is Italian/eritrean. and my mother's background is from basque country/ scot. my mother learned french recently due to courses and french is hard for me to understand with the exception of a handful of words.

French is a mixture of latin/gothic/Celtic/German. the name France comes the germanic tribe named the franks. i also know intermediate spanish. Spanish is a combo of Iberian, latin, Arabic, Carthage, and visigoth.if you listen carefully you will notice that much of spanish or i should say castilian which is more appropriate sounds a little like Arab.

I have seen certain spanish last names that are named after cities in Arabia or morocco. we called it spanish by mistake, Spain has more than one language just like the USSR once did. i would say spanish has 35% of Italian words.

Italy is in the middle of everything so their culture is different. but portuguese is about 78% like spanish. big difference. perhaps the enclosing that Spain has over Portugal. lets not forget the eastern European countries such as Romania/ moldova, who too speak a "latin" language.

But there more like the old soviet nations. the roman empire stretched from the Persian gulf/red sea to Scotland Netherlands so all those lands had some roman influence in some way. look at the word English, which is from angle which derived from latin meaning angoli(angulus)English had much influence from the normans who spoke french. Britain is a latin word. even London.

Even Germany is a latin word. if you look at Mexico south American spanish it is 70% spanish or castilian & a combo of indigenous words. we call ourselves Americans proudly in a sense. but what really is the meaning of that word? it comes from an Italian navigator named amerigo vespucci! so i guess the real US citizens are really "Italian"? before that we had no official name. it was just known as the new world. Another comment that has nothing to do with the question In Italy, the town of Faeto uses the Franco-Provencal dialect which is also used in one other place in France.

Some would say Tecumseh or Andrew Jackson or even Sir Issac Brock. Each deserves consideration in depth. In Canadian history Brock would win hands down and rightly so. His actions saved Canada. Andrew Jackson is a revered name in American history, but his contribution to the war came after the war was over. Tecumseh's attempt to unify the Indian nations failed. "Old Fuss and Feathers" gets little attention in the history books or in Hollywood films, but General Winfield Scott deserves the credit in many ways. He was certainly America's most able General officer and a staunch defender of the nation in his 53 year military career.

Germany, Japan, and Italy were allies of each other. All 3 wanted to improve their nation. Germany wanted to make a master race and invaded Poland, France, USSR and rounded up Jews, Communists, Homosexuals, etc and put them in concentration camps. (Holocaust). Japan wanted to expand its empire by invading Manchuria and China. Italy wanted to make a new Roman Empire and invaded Ethiopia, Albania, and Libya. Note- this is mostly all pre-ww2 facts, after Germany invaded Poland, France and Britain declared war on Germany starting WW2.

Hitler spoke the German language.
German
Hitler spoke German.

Germany fought in northern Italy until April of 1945, but in central and southern Italy they were used as a base for ops in northern Italy. Southern France and the U.S. used their resources for the end of the war.

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The people of Italy voted for the abolition of the monarchy in a referendum in 1946. They wanted to get rid of the monarchy because of its association with the fascists led led by the dictator Benito Mussolini.

In WW2, it was Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce (The Duke)

The Lateran Pacts of 1929 gave the Pope sovereign rights to a state of his own in the Vatican City, this would have given him independance from the Kingdom of Italy and would have shown the world that he was not under Mussolini's control. Il Duce had to give up ever attaining a complete totalitiarian, secular state with the Pacts, however what they did do was eliminate the Catholic Church as a political rival, making them dissolve the PPI and the Catholic Scout Movement. The Pope didn't completely support Mussolini afterwards anyway, they still conflicted over the suppression of Catholic Action and the racial laws of 1938.

The Italians themselves didn't support Fascism but their leadership under Mussolini did and eventually they killed him to support the fact that they didn't support Fascism.

The Church never supported Adolf Hitler. At the start of his political life the Church tried to reach an accommodation that would allow Catholics to practice their religion. Hitler and his government kept signing agreements with the Vatican and the local Church only to turn right around and ignore them completely, not unlike what some modern presidents of rather well-known superpowers are doing in the 21st century. Although the Church tried hard to protect her people, Hitler would not cooperate at all, he had less than no respect or time for the Catholic Church, and what started out on rocky ground quickly turned very sour. The Catholic Church was hard pressed to protect not only her own members, but others, particularly the Jews and gypsies which the Church worked tirelessly to protect. An uncounted multitude of priests, nuns, sisters, and brothers were sent to the camps and exterminated.

Italy failed in the vast majority of her campaigns. Italy tried to invade Albania and the Balkans with no success, although it did have possessions in Ethiopia at the time. In fact, the German army essentially occupied Italy.

The Soviet Union on the other hand had much more success and many more invasions. Before 1942 and war with Germany, the Soviets invaded Finland to try and create a bufferzone around Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) which, although successful, was managed horribly and resulted in horrendous losses for the Soviets. Then cooperating with the Nazis, the Soviets invaded and occupied Poland 1941-1942. After Stalingrad and the turn of the tide, the Soviets essentially invaded every Eastern European, Baltic, and Balkan country with a few exceptions: Yugoslavia and Greece (Russian forces were almost everywhere, but neither of these two countries remained occupied by Russian forces and/or under Moscow's control). It was also the Soviets who took Vienna and the city was actually divided the same way Berlin was, but in exchange for Soviet withdrawal from Austria, the West promised to pull its forces out of Czechoslovakia (American forces had liberated Plzen). The last great conquest for the SoProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ets was Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 e invasion of Germany itself. All of what would become the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Repubilc: German Democratic Republic) was taken by the Soviets Also, near the end of the war in the Pacific, Russian forces did attack and take positions in Manchuria and North Korea, which was appropriately divided up into Soviet and US controlled zones. The Soviets ob

it was that Mussolini had a thing wiv other countrys. init.

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Mussolini wanted to make Italy into a renowned superpower - rich, resourceful, with a super army so that she could get hold of more resources. He wanted her to be feared, respected etc,,

When Mussolini and his wife, and some political leaders was trying to flee from Italy, some Italian farmers shot and killed Mussolini and the political leaders. After they where murdered the Italians thought of a plan to humiliate them, which was by hanging them by their feet on a gas station. ___________________________________________________________________ Not entirely true. Mussolini's wife did not flee with him. The female victim was Clara Petacci, Mussolini's mistress (done with full knowledge of his wife). She and Benito along with another Fascist were executed in the field by Communist Italians and hanged upside down to curry favor with the invading Allies. The Allies were not impressed by such a transparent show of solidarity and ordered the bodies cut down. * The execution of Mussolini occurred two days before Hitler's suicide, and Hitler may not even have been aware of it.