https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2 en-us 2023-01-11 09:35:44 UTC 2025-04-24 10:08:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4a5.png mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2440615918 Countries involved
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Winston Churchill, newly appointed Prime Minister, has to answer the dilemma: find an agreement with Hitler or resist to the end?]]> 2023-01-20 09:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450832071 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450854426 Facing the unstoppable advance of the Nazi army, some in the UK would prefer to make a deal with Adolf Hitler. Not Winston Churchill. With this speech Churchill presents to Parliament the hard reality that Britain and Europe are living and declares his ultimate aim: 'Victory at all costs'.]]> 2023-01-20 09:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450854426 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450866536 Dunkirk is a small town in northern France. Here, between May and June 1940, the largest evacuation of the Allied armies - pushed out to sea by the Nazi army – took place. In nine days, more than 400,000 soldiers were evacuated using every type of vessel, from warships to civilian boats.]]> 2023-01-20 09:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450866536 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450876308 Salvador Dali painted ‘The Face of War’ between the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of World War II. In his painting, the face of war is a skull, while its mouth and eyes contain other skulls, endlessly repeating themselves. For the artist, war and its horrors are part of human destiny.]]> 2023-01-20 10:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450876308 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450898597 Pin is a child at a very difficult time: Italy was occupied by Nazi-Fascist forces, fought by partisan groups. It is through the eyes of a child that Italo Calvino recounts the complex experience of the Italian Resistance movement and war. A tragedy in which people were often involved without knowing the real reasons.]]> 2023-01-20 10:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450898597 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450927015 Neorealism was a literary movement that developed at the end of World War II. Neorealist novels criticised the society and customs of the time and promoted a radical social renewal. Created during the Resistance, Neorealist literature is strongly marked by the experience of war and inspired by anti-fascist values.]]> 2023-01-20 11:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450927015 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450928654 It is one of the most important novels on the Italian Resistance. Published after the death of Fenoglio, it recounts the author’s partisan experience which, through the novel, becomes a universal epic story. ‘Il partigiano Johnny’ is a fundamental text of 20th century literature also for its innovative style, in which the Italian language is often mixed with English expressions and words.]]> 2023-01-20 11:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450928654 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450929804 In August 1943, Milan was heavily bombed by the Allied army. The war caused destruction and death in the city. The whole “city is dead”, the poet wrote, the living is like the dead, nature is dead. It is not only a poem, but also a snapshot of the tragedy of war.]]> 2023-01-20 11:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450929804 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450934808 Is it possible to make poetry in the face of the horror of war? Quasimodo suggests that it is not possible. Poetry is an expression of the human soul, but war has shown that the human soul is dead. And poets cannot make poetry because poetry is helpless in the face of war.]]> 2023-01-20 11:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450934808 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450947785 This is one of Fabrizio De André's best known lyrics and an anti-war anthem. This song explains that the sense of humanity is the first victim of war.]]> 2023-01-20 11:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450947785 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450950210 With the advance of Nazism in Europe, Auden immediately saw its danger and horror. He wrote a series of poems including Refugee Blues, in which he described the terrible conditions of European Jews, forced to leave their homelands, and persecuted by Hitler. At the same time, he denounced the indifference of Western democracies.]]> 2023-01-20 11:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450950210 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450954043 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.]]> 2023-01-20 11:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450954043 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450954920 Anti-Semitism is hatred towards the Jewish people. Hostility towards the Jews goes back many centuries, but under Nazism it took the form of systematic genocide. Between 1933 and 1945, the goal of Nazis was the extermination of all Jews: with method and planning, they carried out mass murders, also known as the Holocaust or Shoah.]]> 2023-01-20 11:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450954920 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450966732 Apartheid was the racial segregation regime in force in South Africa from 1948 to 1991. According to it, white population must be separated from black and Asian people, who could not enjoy the same freedoms and rights. Although it was declared a crime in 1973, Apartheid was only finally abolished in 1994.]]> 2023-01-20 11:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450966732 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450977713 Nelson Mandela was the leader of the anti-Apartheid movement. Involved in the military actions against the regime, he was imprisoned for 27 years. Released from prison in 1990, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and became the first black president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He promoted reconciliation to overcome Apartheid and finally bring democracy to his country.]]> 2023-01-20 12:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2450977713 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494022636 Great Britain is the largest island in Europe and the largest in the British archipelago. It lies to the north-west of the European continent, separated by the English Channel. Naval force has allowed British rule to extend over a fifth of the world.]]> 2023-02-24 15:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494022636 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494024828 France is the third largest country in Western Europe and the second one in terms of population. France was a colonial power, with dominions in all continents. Also because of this, the French population is multi-ethnic, with many people from North Africa.]]> 2023-02-24 15:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494024828 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494028829 The United States occupies the central part of North America, between Canada and Mexico. Its 50 states form the third largest and most populous country in the world. Until its involvement in World War II, the United States were mostly influential in the American continent. From 1945 onwards it became a global power and the most advanced economy in the world.]]> 2023-02-24 15:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494028829 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494034534 Italy is a peninsula extending into the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of a continental part in the north and a peninsular and insular one, which includes the two largest islands in the Mediterranean, and several smaller islands. Until the end of World War II, its economy was mostly agricultural. Its period of great industrial development (the so-called ‘economic boom’) was between the 1950s and 1960s.]]> 2023-02-24 15:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494034534 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494044390 Japan is an archipelago consisting of four main islands and other smaller islands, located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Asia. Japan stretches 3500 kilometres from the subarctic to the subtropical climate zone. Over the centuries it remained isolated for a long time, but after World War II it became one of the most developed countries in the world.]]> 2023-02-24 15:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494044390 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494048596 Russia stretches from west to east over 11 time zones. From the European border, Russian territory runs eastwards, mostly flat, to the Bering Strait. From there, only 83 kilometres of sea separates Russia from the United States. The border with Europe has always been a source of instability for Russia, which had to face the growing power of Germany during World War II.]]> 2023-02-24 15:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/3h0a327ukggtgjb2/wish/2494048596