The Battle of Ortona was a very small yet horrific battle that took many the lives of the Germans, Canadians and the Italians. It started in Italy in 1943 and the aim of the battle was to take a German occupied town on the top of the hill. It was possibly the bloodiest battle of the Italian Campaign to date. The Battle of Ortona Forever changed the Italian front during WW2.
Charles V face multiple problem in his European territories that forced him to spend less time facing the threat of the Ottoman empire (von Sivers, Desnoyers, and Stow 475-476). For instance, revolts in Iberia, the Protestant reformation in the German states, and a renewed war with France for control of Burgundy and Italy demanded the attention of Charles V for the first three decades of the 20th century (von Sivers, Desnoyers, and Stow 476). The distractions only became worse when the French formed an alliance with the Ottomans to drive the Habsburgs out of Italy (von Sivers, Desnoyers, and Stow
In World War One, there we many new developments that affected the way the war was fought. At this time there was many different advantages being developed such as new weapons during the war. The arms race between Germany and Great Britain eventually led to World War One. This led to two of the most important advancements in World War One: the machine gun and U-Boats. The use of the machine gun and the U- Boat changed the way World War One was fought.
They were a small African nation warring against a strong nation with advanced technology. The first cause that led the war to be fought was a treaty between Italy and Ethiopia. According to the American textbook, Menelik II, the emperor of Ethiopia at the time, read the treaty in the Ethiopian language to be Italy receiving a small portion of the country in exchange for their surrender.
The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War lasted from 1756 to 1763. This war was between the English and the French and the allied Native Americans. This war was started because both France and England claimed the Ohio Valley region. Neither one of them would let the other have the land, so they fought over it. The Indians aided the French and not the English because the French treated the Indians with more respect and fairly.
Why Italy entered WWII? After WWI, Italy awarded small lands of Austrian territories from the leading Allies (US & UK), but not Dalmatia which it had coveted. That made Italy unsatisfied with the meager territorial gains from Allies and facilitated a coup led by Mussolini 's Fascist Party leading them into WWII (worldology). Some people think it was right for Italy to enter the WWII while some people didn’t think so. Italy entered WWII for 3 reasons.
After I watched “Losing their Marbles –Greece” it reminded me of the Axum obelisk, which was recently returned to its home country Ethiopia after 68 years. This obelisk was looted by fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. There were Ethio-Italy war, in the late 19th century and Italy defeated by Ethiopian at Adwa, but the fascist Italy, invaded Ethiopia, again in 1935 and the war was lasted for five years. During this war, the Italian military controlled the northern parts of Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian different heritages were in the northern part of the country. When the Italian went back to their home they took different Ethiopian heritages, one of this was Axum obelisk.
Leslie Wilmont Spencer IV Jeremy Maxwell His 240 Analysis 2# Kaiser Wilhelm II was both a political and military leader of Germany during World War I. Luigi Cadorna Field Marshal of the Royal Italian Army during World War I. Both Wilhelm and Luigi had different styles of command during World War I. Field Marshal Luigi Cadorna style leadership was callous, barbaric, and draconian. He was forced to resign as Field Marshal in year 1917 due to his incompetence . One of Cadorna’s greatest disasters were the four offensives along the Isonzo River and year 1915 .
Nazi Germany is the common name for the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in command. Fascist Italy is the era of National Fascist Party rule from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as the totalitarian ruler. Under Hitler’s rule, Germany was transformed into a fascist dictatorial state that controlled all aspects of life. The fascists, in Italy, imposed totalitarian rule and crushed the political and intellectual opposition. With this being said, there are other similarities and differences between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
The unstable governments of the past years had Italy yearning for a strong leader, and when it was needed the most Mussolini stood up and took that role. Mussolini was the dictator of fascist Italy, and his ways of getting to that point were extremely efficient. With the help of his Blackshirts and a charismatic personality he worked his way up to total power. Italy was never planning to join the war, the liberal democratic government was against it at the time. Splinter groups like the one Mussolini was a part of wanted to join the war on the side of the Entente.
Another prevalent Italian dessert derived from almonds is entitled, the cassata. This delicious, delicate cake is a Sicilian dessert consisting of sugar blended with sheep ricotta, royal paste (consisting of almond flour and sugar), sponge cake, and candied fruit. This dessert was entrenched during the oppression and superiority of the Arabs between the 9th and 11th century. While the Arabs asserted their dominance, they also introduced lemons, oranges, and sugar cane which all over time became staples within the Sicilian food culture. Much of these ingredients were primarily developed in the South of Italy, as well as almonds, to create the cassata.
The decline and fall of Rome starts with Antonine Dynasty and ends with Constantinople. Economic changes aided the fall of Rome and so did the civil wars, consuming what little money they had. Constantine also aided the fall of Rome because of starting a new religion, Christianity. This powerful Roman Empire falls because of all these internal problems. The economic changes of the Roman Empire destroyed the social classes of Rome.
Mussolini and His Fascist Ego Many people recognize the name Mussolini as Tupac’s alias, but the name was made famous by an italian man with an uncontrollable temper. Benito Mussolini was a fascist dictator that rose to power shortly after World War I and ruled Italy with aspirations larger than he could fulfill. His pompous ambition and violent disposition would have such a negative impact on the people of Italy, that the would eventually turn on him for the worst. Mussolini’s aggressive temperament was clear at a young age. For example, when he was just 10 years old he was expelled from a catholic boarding school for allegedly stabbing a classmate in the hand (Greenspan).
Giuseppe Garibaldi is considered a “fathers of the fatherland” in Italy through his great role in Italian history. He unified Italy during the Italian Risorgimento through his extensive campaigns as a military general and politician. His military ventures in South America and his part in Italian unification earned him world-wide recognition and the title, “Hero of Two Words.” = =
Beginning in Italy in the interwar period of the early 20th century, fascist movements were to spread across the continent, and the ideology to date marks for most the extreme right of the political spectrum. A form of radical authoritarianism, fascism was characterized by extreme nationalism, economic syndicalism and public military agency. Fascists identify World War I as a revolution that transformed fascism into a viable political ideology, and the essay will analyse each cause independently to trace the movement of political thought towards the extreme right. This essay will show you that the intellectual roots of fascist theory were closely linked with nationalism and the themes of the fin de siècle political culture, as well as the rise
