Countries

This is a map of the countries involved in World War 2. Allies: Britain America Canada Australia Egypt Turkey (Parts of the) Soviet Union

Axis: Germany Italy Japan Finland Libya Austria

Under Axis power: France Holland Luxembourg Belguim Greece Poland Most of the Axis were invaided by Germany or Italy and then decided to join as they had been over powered.

Benito Mussolini was Italy`s leader ( becoming leader in 1922 ), his intention, much the same as Hitler`s, was to gain as much power for Italy. Benito Mussolini Before becoming Prime Minister, Mussolini enjoyed writing and then became the editor for the Milan socialist paper 'Avanti'. He also became well known among the Italian socialists, but soon became unpopular after trying to promote his ideas for Italy during WW2. In 1915 Mussolini created his own Paper called the 'II Popolo d'Italia', before continuing his thoughts for WW2. Once Italy had finally joined the allies to fight Germany, Mussilino decided to join the army. Mussolino achieved the rank of a corporal- the same as Hitler, though in 1917 he was discharged due to shrapnel wounds. From there he carried on his carerer as a journalist- developing and promoting his ideas which were known as Fascism. After the war Italy was chaos, rebels and protests were everywhere. Benito took this to advantage and began to persuade people into thinking he would make Italy a better place, adopting a Roman salute and Black Shirt Milita (which Hitler later copied). he also elected 35 others from his Fascism party to became part of the Italian Chambers of Deputies. On the 29th October mussolini received a call from King Vittorio Emanuellle II, Mussolini boarded a train and made his way to King Vittorio, there he was greeeted by thousands of Fascism Blackshirts. He first action was to send all the strikers back home to their families with jobs before managing to regain the powers of all goverment offices in order to asssume control of the country, and in result became known as II Duce (the leader).
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__**Japan**__ Tojo Hideki (1884- 1948)

Before becoming Prime Minister of Japan in December 1941, Tojo joined the japanese military, before qualifying at the army war college.