HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Party System, Atlantic Charter, Nuclear Weapon
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19:10: ending wwii, visions for the post-war settlement, two superpowers/bi-polar world, rebuilding europe, divided germany, new international institutions and alliances. Us and britain army were able to move in and push the germans from the. North americans could use el alamein to start attacking italy from sicily moving their way up. Mussolini was dictator and was not deposed from his position. Enough people that believed that he was destroying the war. New government comes in, september 1943 italy surrenders and signs treaty with allies. Hitler doesn"t think this is a good idea. Sends troops into italy from north going down south. Puppet state run by germans and mussolini in the north nazi state. British and americans were pushing from the south. Soviets thought that in order to win over germany they needed to fight from two fronts. Stalin resented the fact that the allies decided to invade north africa. Starts pressuring americans to open up a second front.
