Italy in WW2

Germany invaded Italy in 1944.

During January-February 1944, the battles at Anzio and Monte Cassino were some of the bloodiest of the entire Italian Campaign. The Allies were fighting to break through the lines at Monte Cassino, the town of Cassino and into the Liri Valley. At the same time, the Allies had landed on the beaches of Anzio further to the north. The Germans were applying pressure to push the Allies back into the sea. An example of the fighting at Anzio, the 2nd Ranger battalion launched a night attack with 768 men and only 6 returned. Also, on 22 January, the Allies launched their first operation to break the German line at Cassino. The attacks by the Americans and the British were not coordinated. The 36th "Texas" Infantry Division was assigned to cross the Rappido River and attack into the flat Liri Valley. This front was heavily mined and covered by German armor and artillery. Their attack was repulsed with heavy losses for the 36th Division. There were other battles that saw heavy combat but the amount of troops involved were not as numerous, so the loses were not as high. This includes: Battle of Monte Battiglia(or Battle Mountain) in Sept 1944 Battle of Ortona by Canadian Division - Dec 1943

He created Fascism and used it as a crime.

The Axis Powers was a military alliance during WW2 (1939-1945) consisting of Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. The three major Axis powers were Germany, Japan, and Italy, which signed a Tripartite Pact on September 27, 1939. The entire Axis Powers alliance was disolved in 1945 at the end of WW2.

Benito Mussolini was at one time the ruler of Italy.

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No it was a kingdom that Mussolini turned into a totalitarian dictatorship.

the reason the french came here to America is because they wanted to start a new life. they also came to find gold back in the 1600's. they had many helpers here to start a new life together. when they first got here, the king asked one of his men to find him a river from the U.S. to Asia. but the worker could never find that road.

The follows of Mussolini were called "Brown-Shirts or " Fascists."

During World War II, the German plan to invade France through Belgium and the imposing area of the Ardennes Forest was called "Fall Gelb." Meaning "Case (or, Operation) Yellow," the plan went through numerous revisions before taking its final, and highly daring, form.

VERY LITTLE-ITALY WITHOUT CONFERRING WITH HITLER, INVADED ALBANIA AND GREECE IN EARLY 1941 AND QUICKLY GOT BOGGED DOWN IN BOTH COUNTRIES AND EVEN HAD TO RETREAT WHICH WAS A MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT FOR MUSSOLINI! THAT CAUSED HITLER TO POSTPONE HIS INVASION PLANS FOR THE SOVIET UNION BY A CRITICAL 6 WEEKS! ITALY WAS ALWAYS A WEAK AND IMPOTENT ALLY FOR GERMANY ESPECIALLY IN NORTH AFRICA WHERE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ITALIANS SURRENDERED TO THE BRITISH AND AMERICANS AND ON THE EASTERN FRONT. THE GERMANS ALWAYS HAD TO COME TO THE ITALIANS RESCUE EXCEPT ETHIOPIA WHERE MUSSOLINI HAD INVADED BACK IN 1936 AND HELD ONTO UNTIL 1940 WHEN THE BRITISH TOOK IT OVER.

Answer The Allies invaded Italy so they could continue to advance against the Nazi alliance and end the war sooner. Russia was fighting to hold back the German invasion of their country. The Allies promised to help Russia and the only way that they could was to continue to fight Germany where they could and prevent Germany from sending more troops into Russia. Italy was the only place that the Allies could attack and support the operation.

to reform the economy of the ussr and keep up with japan and america

This is a relative question, that is, it can only be answered relative to some other country (e.g. Brazil). Is Italy rich? It depends how you measure wealth. If you use material wealth (i.e. income per capita, GDP, etc.) then Italy is wealthier than many nations (e.g. Russia, Brazil). In fact, according to GDP, it is the 7th largest economy in the World and has roughly the same income per capita as France or Spain. You could also answer this question based on other variables, such as life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality in which case Italy also ranks among the highest in World. Indeed, the UN's own World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the Italian Health care system as being 2nd Worldwide while other countries such as Canada and the US ranked respectively 30th and 37th.

Regarding the standard of living, Northern Italy (down south to appr. Rome) is one of Europe's wealthiest regions, comparable to e.g. Bavaria or Western Austria. Southern Italy's standard of living is comparable to that of the post-communist Central European countries, e.g. Hungary or Slovakia. Overall, the Italian standard of living is consistently ranked in the highest categories. For example, it has an HDI (Human development Index) of 0.945 which ranks next to countries such as Belgium or the US. The gap between rich and poor is moderate and defintely ranks better than the US. The gini coefficient (a standard measure of the gap between rich and poor where the lower the number the better) for Italy is at 36 while the US has a value at about 46.

All in all, Italy is easily qualifiable as a rich, developed Western country with an extremely rich cultural heritage.

POPULATION: 60,642,308

POPULATION GROWTH RATE: .42%

In the first decade of the 21st century, Italy has seen a population growth instead of population decline; due to massive immigration waves within the last two decades.

There is no real Italian dress, each state or part has there own costuming or style. Basicall y the women would where long dresses with corset type things over the top and the men would where shorts to the knees and shirts with waistcoats.

He was a politician. Does that answer the question? Politicians are not necessarily qualified or have had good job experience. I have attached a related link for you to view, see below.

well, the crusaders learned the effectiveness of castles, which soon helped the development of cannons. Which, helped the development of handguns, helped improve artillery, explosives, helped realize the effectiveness of fire, other stuff like armor, already was in Europe, and parts of the middle east.

It was the fasces (a bundle of sticks featuring an axe, indicating the power over life and death.)

He may not have been bad, but he did a lot of bad things. _____________________________________________________________________ I agree. Yet, Mussolini did something that no world leader had done before. He stopped Hitler from invading a country that he wanted to invade (Hitler's birthplace of Austria). At the time (1934, I think), the Italian Army dwarfed the German Army, and Hitler backed down. Later, Hitler acquired Austria and turned on Czechoslovakia (1938). In this case, Hitler and Mussolini played the good cop/bad cop routine, with Mussolini as the good cop. The Brits and French backed down. By WW2 Mussolini had been reduced to Hitler's junior partner, and that is how he is remembered today. Also, Mussolini did something else that has never been done before or since. He wiped out organized crime in Sicily because of a slight done to him by a Mafia don. When the Allies invaded Sicily in 1943, they turned loose all political prisoners of the Fascists, including the Mafiosos who were soon back in business. Postscript: One of Mussolini's granddaughters ran for a seat on the Italian Parliament on the Fascist Party ticket, and she won if I remember correctly.

Italy is one of the beautiful country in Europe, it's capital is Rome. It has 116,306 square mile area (Sicily and Sardinia Island included) with more than 57 million population. France, Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland are the nations that bordered the Italy.

he had blue eyes

Rule with an iron fist, oppress your people and he worshiped himself and his own power. He did not however condone the genocide of the Jews and Undesirables that was done by the Nazis and he told Hitler he should stop.

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini Il DUce Founded the Facsist political party.