Francisco Franco and other army leaders staged a coup and installed a right-wing fascist government, touching off a civil war between loyalist Republican forces (aided by Russia) and Franco's Fascist party (aided by Mussolini and Hitler). Mussolini (1883-1945) - Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922-1943. Wanted to recreate the Roman Empire. Ethiopia - Mussolini invaded, conquering it in 1936. The League of Nations failed to
The invasion into Italy was when he Allies decided to target Italy, which lay to the north, across the Mediterranean sea. On July 10, 1943, the Allies began their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. Encountering little resistance from demoralized Sicilian troops, Montgomery’s 8th Army came ashore on the southeast part of the island, while the U.S. 7th Army, under General George S. Patton, landed on Sicily’s south coast. Within three days
that “democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried”. In agreement with his statement, this paper will examine the problems of democratic governments using specific examples, and compare it to the failure of fascist governments in Nazi Germany and Italy and communist governments in the Soviet Union and China. Theoretically, democracy is a stable form of government where power is in the hands of the people. In a democracy, people have the liberty to elect officials
David Harasnyi once said, “A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning.” and during my return trip from Mexico, I could not have have agreed more. We had just finished building a house, and I was ready for an air-conditioned, nap-filled journey back to Pella. After we finished loading our luggage, we climbed into fifteen passenger vans, mentally preparing for the hours of travel ahead. Although my two friends and I had placed our belongings in the front row of the van to save
country of Italy. Italy is located in the continent of Europe. Italy is sometimes compared to a boot because it is shaped like one. According to the website Britannica the population of Italy is approximately 59,801,490 people currently.Britannica.com states as the country of Italy was growing,
Violence Towards Civilians During the Spanish Civil War and World War II State violence towards civilians maintained large presence in both the Spanish Civil War and during World War II. Most of the circumstances under which this violence occurred and the effects that came as a result of it are shared between the two conflicts; however, there are some differences between the circumstances under which the atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima versus the bombing of Guernica and other acts of violence
by discrediting anti-Communism, insidiously advances the Communist cause. McCarthy was aided in his meteoric rise by the mendacious denial, on the part of the left, of the nature and success of a communist movement directed by Moscow in the United States. It was also true that his “reign of terror” would be greatly exaggerated by historians writing after his fall and on into the present time. They would use terms such as “The Great Fear” to characterize all anti-communism as a dark and destructive
The movie is based on hostility between England and the United States. It takes place during a time when the world was stricken by war, food crisis and illnesses. The commitment of the United States to the fight against terrorism escalated hostilities between the two countries to the breaking point. However, since England wanted peace, it servers ties with the United States and restructures its government. As a result, Adam Sutler was installed as the High Chancelor who was a military figure. His
was the tense relationship between the United States (and its allies), and the Soviet Union (the USSR and its allies) between the end of World War II and the demise of the Soviet Union. After World War II, the world situation has undergone major changes, the capitalist countries led by the United States, the United States as a super power, socialist countries in the Soviet led, the Soviet Union is the only country to compete with the United states. World powers in accordance with the Yalta conference
Robert Jordan was a protagonist; he was an American volunteer who left the United States to participate in the Spanish Civil War and fight alongside the Loyalist. He had his own political beliefs and the love for Spanish people, that’s why he left the US and fought in a foreign war to against the Fascists. His mission was to destroy a bridge that would aid the Republican side and fought the Fascists. , and the deaths of thousands people. Deaths was absolutely happened in the war, but for