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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Military history of Greece during World War II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This page is intended to serve as a focal point for studying Greek military history during the World War II-era.
This is considered the turning point of the war as the German invasion was disastrous as a result of the Russian winter.
Some Italian units were viewed by the Germans as innefective, and in some cases it was feared that Italian troops would begin to desert as it became clear that Mussolini's government was near collapse.
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 ipedia.com: Military history of Britain during World War II Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Military history of Britain during World War II This page is intended to serve as a focal point for information pertinent to understanding British military activity during World War II.
The Italian decision to halt the advance is generally credited to them being unaware of the British strength, and the activity of Royal Navy forces operating in the Mediterranean to interfere with Italian supply lines.
In the last great amphibious operation of the war in Europe, British Commandos and Canadian troops captured the island in the late autumn of 1944, clearing the way for Antwerp to be opened and for the easement of the critical logistical problems the Allies were suffering.
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 Military history of Italy during World War II - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Within a week of Italy's declaration of war, the British 11th Hussars had seized Fort Capuzzo and, in an ambush east of Bardia, the Tenth Army's Engineer in Chief, General Lastucci, was captured.
As in Egypt, the Italian forces with ~70,000 Italian soldiers and ~180,000 native troops outnumbered their British opponents, but Ethiopia was isolated from the Italian mainland, and thus cut off from resupply, which seriously limited what operations the Italians would be able to undertake.
After the surrender and the allied invasion, what could be reorganized of the Italian government troops fought alongside the Allies for the rest of the war while troops loyal to Mussolini's northern Italian Social Republic continued to fight with the Germans.
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 Bambooweb: World War II
history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives and large percentages of countries' gross national product.
The war also saw the re-emergence of the United States from its isolationism, the destruction and rebuilding of Germany and Japan into major industrial powers, the advent of the atomic bomb, the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as global superpowers, closer integration of Europe in the form of a
Traditionally, the war is described as a conflict between two groups of powers: the Axis and the Allies.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Benito Mussolini
Italian influence in the Aegean and abroad seemed impotent and disregarded by the greater powers, and Italy lacked colonies.
In 1929, a concordat with the Vatican was signed, the Lateran treaties, by which the Italian state was at last recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, and the independence of Vatican City was recognized by the Italian state.
World War II As World War II (WWII) approached, Mussolini announced his intention of annexing Malta, Corsica, and Tunis.
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