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The dictator of Italy during WWII and founder of fascism, he inspired and supported the international spread of fascist movements during the interwar period. On 22 May 1939, Benito signed the ¨Pact Of Steel¨ He was Italy´s leader from 1922 to 1943.
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On 28 June 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie travelled to Bosnia for a state visit. They went to the capital city of Sarajevo to examine imperial troops stations there. As they were heading towards their destination, a Serbian terrorist threw a bomb at their open-topped car, but the bomb instead hit the vehicle behind them which injured two officers. Instead of fleeing Sarajevo, Ferdinand insisted on continuing the journey and visited the wounded officers in a hospital -
They were eventually shot by Gavrilo Princip, killing them instantly.
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Countries who participated in WW1: Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Russia, UK and US. WW1 Allies: France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan and the US
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on 28 July, setting off a chain reaction of military mobilisations prompted by Europe´s system of alliances. Russia and France were soon at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary. -
The ¨Central´s Power¨ started to collapse one by one. First was Bulgaria, followed by the Ottoman Empire, then Austria-Hungary. On 11 November 1918 11 o'clock, German finally surrendered. Germany was taken the blame for starting WW1, resulting in the Treaty Of Versailles.
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Exactly after 5 years the assassination of Ferdinand, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by the German (by force) after 32 countries gathered to make a conference. Territorials for German were lost, such as Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France and German was forbidden to unite with Austria lands in East German.
The Germany army was restricted to 100,000 men and only 6 battleships.
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The Treaty of Versailles was unpopular with Germany, particularly a man with a stylish moustache. Since Germany´s military had to be reduced, Hitler could no longer be a soldier and decided to be an informant for the army. He was tasked to infiltrate new political parties that could pose a communist threat. A party called Germans Worker´s party had many red flags so he checked it out. Turned out they weren´t communists at all and Hitler thought the party was pretty dope and decided to join. -
His intellectual speeches made him very popular and he renamed the party ¨Nazi¨ and made its buddhist inspired flag. Years later, Nazi increasingly became popular in the elections, and Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933. He got rid of his enemies and started concentration camps and thought it would be cool to undo the Treaty of Versailles and start WWII. Both Italy and Japan sided with German as they all had the same enemies and goals.
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Over the course of the years, Hitler´s plans had been going smooth, taking majority of countries and on 22 June 1941, send 3 million troops to attack the Soviet Union, the largest ground invasion in history. Stalin was not prepared for an impending attack from moustache boy and did not stand a chance. It was so successful they they were about to conquer Moscow which would have been over for the Soviet Union, but it´s Russia. The weather became extremely cold and the German soldiers were not
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provided winter clothes and supplies as Hitler thought he´d had won by now. Stalin called in troops from the Siberian front specially trained to fight in the cold, the Germans were now dead as hell and had no choice but to dig in and wait till winter ends. Everything went downhill afterwards and the Allies surrounded German. Hitler, in his bunker, given up hope and shot himself along with his one day old wife, Eva Braun.
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