Hasan El Rabih “8P”

World War II
Leaflet
The deadliest war in history…
 Benito Mussolini
After going through troubled school years, Benito Mussolini, as an adult,
moved to Austria-Hungary in 1909, wanting to become editor of a socialist
newspaper. However, he was later expelled back to his home country, Italy,
due to being accused of violating laws which were meant to balance press
freedom. A year later, in 1910, he became the editor for another socialist
newspaper but was yet again arrested for inciting violence. After all of this,
Mussolini finally decided to start his own newspaper after splitting from the
socialist party in 1914. He advocated violence just as anarchy spread across
the country.

After a job in the military, Benito Mussolini returned to newspapers. By the

year 1918, he called for a dictator to take control of Italy. Due to the pressure
from him and his followers, the government was forced to order the bondage
of outsiders they considered foes. After the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, he
gathered the distinct fascist into one national organization, going by the name
of Fasci Italiani di Combattimento. The Italian Fascist attracted war
experts and encouraged violence against socialists. Hence, Mussolini
prepared a stock of weapons in his newspaper offices.

By the year’s end, Mussolini stood in a general election as the Fascist

candidate, but he lost in a Socialist swing. He was arrested once more but
got released the next day. In 1921, the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III
broke up Parliament amongst violence and disorder. After the elections,
Mussolini became a deputy in Parliament. Soon, the party changed its
name to Partito Nazionale Fascista.

In the beginning, Mussolini disapproved of Adolf Hitler, but with more

time, their companionship grew more and more. Mussolini then approved
of anti-Semitic acts. He and Hitler joined sides with Francisco Franco in
the Spanish Civil War during 1936. By October of 1938, Germany and
Italy formed the Rome-Berlin Axis. Mussolini wrote an article in 1938
that aligned Italians and German concept of Aryan race. Mussolini then
called for banishment of outsider Jews from Italy.

Hitler’s invasion of Poland resulted in France and Britain declaring war

against Germany. Mussolini, on the other hand, stayed evenhanded. Per
contra, its invasion of Denmark and Norway persuaded him that Hitler
would be victorious in the war. In June 1939, as Germany plowed through
France, Mussolini declared Italy’s entrance into the war.
 Adolf Hitler’s Rise to Power
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power started in Germany during September 1919.
In this year, Hitler joined the political party, Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
This party was anti-Marxist and opposing the government of the Weimar
Republic and the Treaty of Versailles. It was supporting nationalism, Pan-
Germanism, and anti-Semitism.

On the 29 th of July, 1921, Hitler became chairman of Deutsche

Arbeiterpartei, which is renamed to National Socialist German Workers’
Party, or NSDAP. In the same year, he challenged Anton Drexler to
become leader of the Nazi party. He agrees, and Hitler becomes the new
leader of the Nazi party.

In 1932, Hitler became a German citizen. This made him able to stand in
the Presidential election against Paul von Hindenburg. Then, in January
of 1933, he became chancellor of a coalition government. There, the
Nazis have a third of the seats in the Reichstag. In October of 1933, he
withdrew from the League of Nations. Later, he trebles the size of the
German Army, neglecting the arms restrictions appointed by the Treaty of
Versailles. In June of 1934, Hitler eliminates all opposition amongst his
party. Therefore, crushing any of his rivals.
 World War II Main Events
A brief timeline of the deadliest war to occur on the face of Earth, World
War 2:
1. 1939, Sep. 1 - Germany invades the country of Poland. This is
precisely when the horrific war began.

2. 1939, Sep. 3 - France and Britain declare war on Germany.

3. 1940, Apr. 9 to Jun. 9 - Germany takes over Denmark and Norway.

4. 1940, May 10 to Jun, 22 - Germany uses strikes, known as blitzkrieg

to take over much of Europe.

5. 1940, May 30 - Winston Churchill becomes head of the British

government.

6. 1940, Jun. 10 - Italy makes its entrance into the Second World War
as a member of the Axis powers.

7. 1940, Jul. 10 - Germany launches an air attack on Britain, known as

the Battle of Britain.

8. 1941, Jun. 22 - Germany and the Axis powers attack Russia with a
massive army of over four million troops.

9. 1941, Dec. 7 - Japan launches a surprise military attack on the US

Navy in Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese intended the
attack as a precautionary act to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from
interrupting with its planned military acts in Southeast Asia against
overseas areas of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United
States. The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese aircraft in a
 couple of waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. The US makes its
entrance into the war the following day.

10. 1942, Jun. 4 - The US Navy destroys the Japanese navy at the
Battle of Midway. Six days late, the Allies captured Sicily.

11. 1943, Sep. 3 - Italy surrenders to the Allies. Germany helps

Mussolini to escape and build a government in Northern Italy.

12. 1944, Jun. 6 - D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces
invade France, driving off the Germans. 

13. 1944, Aug. 25 - Paris is emancipated from German domination.

14. 1944, Dec. 16 - Germany fires an enormous attack during the

Battle of the Bulge. Unfortunately for them, they lose to the Allies,
sealing off the fate of the German army.

15. 1945, Feb. 19 - US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. They
capture the it after a vicious battle.

16. 1945, Apr. 12 - US President Franklin Roosevelt passes away,

succeeded by President Harry Truman. 

17. 1945, Apr. 30 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide, fully knowing

that Germany has lost the war.

18. 1945, May 7 - Germany surrenders to the Allies.

19. 1945, Aug. 6 - The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on the
city of Hiroshima, Japan. The city is absolutely and utterly ruined. 
20. 1945, Aug. 9 - Yet another atomic bomb is dropped on
Nagasaki, Japan.

21. 1945, Sep. 2 - Japan surrenders to Us General Douglass

MacArthur along with the Allies. The surrender came approximately
four months after the surrender of the Axis forces in Europe, bringing an
end to World War II.