https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz en-us 2023-05-09 14:28:44 UTC 2023-05-22 14:40:06 UTC hello@padlet.com storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591403370 The Chancellor of Nazi Germany during WWII, Adolf Hitler was a veteran of World War One, brought Germany out of it's economic depression, and up till he started invading Germany's neighbors his only real flaw as a leader was ignoring The League of Nations and being an extreme racist. With the other members of The League of Nations not wanting another war and not being prepared to fight one Hitler was able to get away with a lot of things, like rebuilding the military, reclaiming the Rhineland, building the Luftwaffe, expanding the Kriegsmarine, and tricking Chamberlain into thinking that he wouldn't invade the rest of Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately Adolf was extremely racist, and a lot of this was pointed at the Jews. Leading to them being outcasts and heavily discriminated against, accumulating in the Nuremberg Laws, The Night of Broken Glass, and of course, the infamous Final Solution. When WWII broke out Hitler's strategy of overwhelming the enemy with Blitzkrieg worked wonders giving Germany a sizable advantage, but as the war went on and Germany began losing, the people losing faith in the war, and his own soldiers being fed up with it all, he was backed into a corner and killed himself.]]> 2023-05-15 14:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591403370 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591404074 Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943, Benito Mussolini grew up poor and aggressive. Constantly being punished for bullying fellow students and on numerous occasions he even attacked students and faculty with a pen knife. He went on to graduate with a degree in teaching and went on to be a headmaster, which he realized after a few years was not a profession he was suited for, and left in pursuit of purpose. He left the country with nothing but a nickel medal of Karl Marx, he went from job to job living day to day. However as he was doing this he was also building up a reputation as a young man of strange magnetism and remarkable rhetorical talents. He read widely and voraciously picking out what he liked and discarding the rest forming no coherent political philosophy but impressing his young cohorts nonetheless. He became a political journalist and public speaker, producing propaganda for the Trade Union, proposing a strike and advocating violence as a way to enforce demands. More than once he was arrested. He returned to Italy in 1904 and little was heard about him for a few years, but then he returned to journalism, the Trade Union, extreme politics, and jail. After being arrested again after getting married and by now Comrade Mussolini was known as one of the most gifted and dangerous of the socialists. He went on to write his own newspaper which was so successful that in 1912 he appointed editor of the official Socialist newspaper "Avanti!" (Forward!) whose circulation doubled due to him. Although he soon switched from the ideals of his socialist companions in favor of a "stronger" view point. He began violently supporting war (as to violently opposing it [mio Dio this guy is nothing but Violence]) he resigned from Avanti and was expelled from the Socialist party. Afterwards he went to fight in WW1. When he came back he had been wounded fighting in a cops of sharpshooters and a convinced anti socialist. As early as February 1918 he was advocating the emergence of a dictator, "a man who is ruthless and energetic enough to make a clean sweep" and was hinting that he just might be that man. A group of about 200 various people of different beliefs formed soon after and Mussolini dubbed them "Fighting bands", and they would be held together as tightly as the Fasces - symbols of ancient Roman authority - and thus Fascism was born.

At rallies, surrounded by supporters wearing black shirts, Mussolini captured the imagination of the crowds the way he looked, the way he spoke, everything about the man was perfect for rallying the masses. Fascist squads inspired by Mussolini swept through the country attacking socialists, terrorizing, humiliating, and killing them. In late 1920 these squads began attacking government institutions that weren't on the same page as Mussolini, and before long the Fascists controlled the majority of Italy. As the liberal dominated government began to fall apart our violent school boy began plotting to seize power on a national level, the summer of 1922 his opportunity arose. The remnants of the Trade union called a General Strike and Mussolini said that if the government didn't stop the strike the fascists would, and fascist volunteers did help defeat the strike. In October the same year some 40,000 fascists gathered in Naples as Mussolini gave a speech, saying that the government would be handed to them or they would take it by marching on Rome. Four days later and four groups of Fascists, none being led by Mussolini by the way, advanced on Rome, the King sent a telegram to Mussolini saying that he was willing to accept his Fascism.]]> 2023-05-15 14:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591404074 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591404804 Tojo was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Association, and 40th Prime Minister of Japan during WWII. He was an aggressive Militarist, leading his country's efforts during the attack on Pearl Harbor and winning smashing victories in southeast Asia. However the successful Allied invasion of the Mariana Islands weakened his government and he was removed from power. After the formal surrender of Japan Tojo attempted to take his own life but failed and was nursed back to health, and then he was executed for war crimes.]]> 2023-05-15 14:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591404804 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591413070 "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, is a day that will live on in infamy..." Were the words of President Roosevelt when he addressed Congress the morning after the attack. Japan's air force attacked the Naval Base in Pearl Harbor where all but a few ships of the pacific fleet were docked. The attack was successful and removed the american force from the pacific.

The however backfired and brought The United States into World War Two and the atomic bomb to Japan, courtesy of the red, white, and blue of course.]]> 2023-05-15 14:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591413070 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591413326 The invasion of Normandy, Operation Overlord, D-Day, Omaha Beach. Everybody knows the horrors of this event, the continuous thud and chink of MG's, the sound of bodies being riddled with bullets, dying before they hit the ground. It was an uphill battle for the Allies even before they hit the beach, the skies were overcast so the bombing run scheduled before the landing missed their marks, the waves were so high that they outmatched the flotation devices on the tanks, some of the landing craft capsized because of the waves, and the supporting artillery from the battleships didn't hit, with the exception of the USS Texas, because they didn't have the range to fire safely. After two grueling days of fighting the Allies did however manage to take the entire length of shoreline on the English Channel.]]> 2023-05-15 14:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591413326 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591413615 This battle was caused by a German counter-offensive after the Allies began pushing inwards after D-Day. They found a weak point in the advancing front lines and made their move, however this didn't really work since the Allies were able to quickly pinch off the German forces and take them from all sides while preventing reinforcements and supplies from making it to them.]]> 2023-05-15 14:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591413615 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591414282 A poster encouraging the donations of scrap metal for the military to recycle into arms and munitions. ]]> 2023-05-15 14:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591414282 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591414709 The picture shows Adolf Hitler with some children, in what I'd assume to be something promoting the Nazi Youth. Propaganda like this would have been used to encourage support for some of the domestic programs that Nazi Germany had implanted, because you can't run a country effectively without at least some public support.]]> 2023-05-15 14:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591414709 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591416659 After the war Germany had a lot to answer for, that's where this thing happens. Taking place after the defeat of Nazi Germany this was a collective effort by the early U.N to try Nazi soldiers, of all rank and stature, for war crimes. Almost all of them were guilty, a lot were executed, and some were imprisoned for a long time.]]> 2023-05-15 14:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591416659 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591417248 Ground Zero of one of two Nuclear attacks against Imperial Japan.]]> 2023-05-15 14:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591417248 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591417385 Ground Zero of one of two Nuclear attacks against Imperial Japan.]]> 2023-05-15 14:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591417385 storys417 https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591418059 The unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany happened in the early hours of Monday May 7, 1945. The instrument of surrender was a legal document turning over the rest the of the Nazi forces to the Allies.]]> 2023-05-15 14:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/storys417/jz2levhjr1609dmz/wish/2591418059