... these mistakes was his agreement to form an alliance with Adolf Hitler and the German Third Reich. In essence, Italy was a historical follower; the government jumped onto the Allied bandwagon when it was clear they would win World War I and later switched sides in order to join the Axis Powers ... end,"" did not immediately agree to sign a formal alliance with Hitler at the time. Anonymous articles during this time continued to proclaim that the Fascist government were not pacifistic, as were the democracies. For this reason, Mussolini argued the Axis Powers could strike at the "precise ...

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... a period of 4 years. On June 28,1914, an assassin, Gvrilo Princip, gunned down the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Francis Fernidad. The assassin was believed to be to have ties with a terrorist group in Serbia, this led to the conclusion that the Serbian government was behind the murder . The idea behind the actions of Gavrilo Princip, is that his cause was ... Brest-Litovsk,which ended the war between them, which required Russia to surrender lands to Germany. On November 9,1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 11 was forced to step down from the german government. An armistice was signed (agreem...

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... of money at that time in history was impossible to pay the amount of money was reduced to 132 million marks; which was a lot but not as much. The German government needed to gain money to pay the allies so they raised taxes, but this took to a depressed economy. They had to start printing more money but this brought the value ... of the allies in return for its efforts during the war they were promised large amounts of territory almost reaching turkey. Although Italy did not make huge advances into the Austrian-Hungarian territory, it kept his promise loosing millions of lives and large...

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