Agapito

= World War II = =Italy's Dictator= ===Benito Mussolini was the Prime Minister of Italy and on October 3rd, 1935 100,000 of his troops as well as askari attacked Ethiopia and On October 7, the League of Nation declared Italy an aggressor but took no action against it. During the war the Italians were lacing bombs with mustard gas, formed forced labor camps, made gallows, killed hostages, and mutilated the corpses of their enemies. In June 1940 Italy entered World War II on the side of Germany. And on April 27th, 1945 Mussolini and his mistress were shot, their bodies were hung upside down from meat hooks in Milan, and the bodies were ridiculed and abused by many.=== =The Nazis= ===Appeasement is when a nation tries to end or prevent war by pleaseing the opposite side and coming to a peaceful agreement. Hitler was allowed to rebuild an army, take control of Czechoslovakia and Great Britain and France tried to make peace by defending Hitler's idea by arguing that a stronger Germany would help stop communism to the west and that Germany should be allowed to re-arm to defend herself. Germany, Britain, France, and italy agreed that the Sudetenland would be returned to Germany, this was known as the Munich Agreement===

=Japanese Expansion= ===The Japanese expanded mostly into China and nearly took it over,,however, due to the lack of resources Japan wasn't as strong as Tojo wanted. The US gave loans to China for weapons and supplies to help them take back their own country. Japan was at a disadvantage and decided to try to eliminate the forces in the Pacific ocean to gain the resouces. But one American trained Chinese P41 fighter pilots now known as the Flying Tigers. Japans biggest obstacle overall was America's Pacific Fleet and the Flying Tigers.===

=Rationed Items= === Nearly all food products were rationed. Cloth, wood and metal, as well as rubber and leather, were all rationed so that the armed forces would have enough for their needs. Gasoline, oil and grease, as well as kerosene and industrial alcohol, and ink. Paper, carbon paper, pencils, pens and typewriter ribbons, as well as erasors and paperclips and envelopes.Automobile tires, parts and belts were all unavailable during the war, because the factories were sending all their production to the military's needs ===

= Rationing = 

=== Rationing was very neccessary because it showed the troops that America was supporting them and it gave the nation hope. Rationing helped the nation work together and even children were happy to ration, most of the things rationed were just luxuries anyway and it didn't really affect most people because they were used to being without the items due to the Great Depression. ===

=**Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Internment Camps**= ===Executive Order 9066was signed and enforced during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 allowing the Secretary of War to list many areas as military zones. EO 9066 cleared the way for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Internment Camps were "blocks" of buildings, farms, and work stations that the Japanese were forced to relocate to due to the distrust and tension felt by the nation after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I personally think that it was unnecessary because the only way that Japan could've known about the American fleet is if they were in formed by the Japanese residents in Hawaii. The U.S. should have just done something similar to the Japanese in Hawaii.===

=The Manhattan Project= ===The Manhattan Project was a research and development program in which the U.S. got the U.K. and Canada to help develop the world's first Atomic Bomb during World War II. The project was soon shut down and charged with multiple crimes. To me this program was not good for humanity because now three countries have the power to create a bomb with unimaginable destructive power and if that bomb is dropped, everything in and near the blast radius will be destroyed. the program just made the world a much more dangerous place and now if there is another war it will be the worst one yet.===

=The European Theatre=

=Dwight Eisenhower= ===Dwight Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander for the U.S.. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy. the invasion was successful because he sent out 5,000 ships, 10,000 aircrafts, 20,000 Vehicles and 153,000 Troops. The invasion lasted from 1942-1943 therefore it was a short successful one===

=George Marshall= ===George Marshall a major American military leader and the creator of Operation Overlord. He was in charge of the first peacetime draft and coordinated the largest expansion of the U.S. military by adopting a focus on trying to expand the military quickly and rapidly producing masses of soldiers trained in basic combat skills and weapon skills.===

=Omar Bradley= ===Omar Bradley was a commander in the U.S. Army and the person who lead the Battle of Bulge. the Germans had fought us away from the borders of belgium and Omar Bradley ended up stopping their advance then successfuly pushed the German forces back, shortly after, he and his forces liberated Paris===

=George Patton= ===George Patton was an Officer in the United States Army and at the time was the Best Tank Commander. He was a part of the Invasion of Normandy or "D-day" Which was lead by Dwight Eisenhower and soon after became The Supreme Allied Commander. He used his tank commanding skills to lead Operation Torch which was a plan that was executed to take back North Africa from the Nazis===

=The leader in the European Theatre that had the most influence on the outcome of WWII was Mussolini because once he was killed Hitler had given up and commited suicide which just about ended the war.=

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