Chronology of War
The Great War 1914-1918
The Russian Revolution 1917
The Balfour Declaration 1917
The Paris Peace Treaty of Versailles 1919
League of Nations Middle East Mandate 1920
World War Two
England and France Declare War on Germany 1939
Italy Enters War 1940
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor 1941
USA Atomic Bombing of Japan 1945
Axis Surrender 1945
Holocaust Reports Begin 1945
Nuremberg War Trials 1945-1946
Israel Declared a Nation 1948
A global assemblage of historians, authors, enemies, and admirers alike are all too quick to point out that here was Mussolini’s great mistake — the war! Most of these commentators and their conclusion give none, if any, consideration to the many differing factors which created the now infamous war of 1939 to 1945, which caused the demise of the Fascist Government in Italy, and eventually Benito Mussolini’s death on July 28, 1945. He was not the author of these events. He was forced to protect the interests of Italy first, and secondly the fate of his Fascist Government
which had taken Italy by the bootstraps in 1922 and made it a great Nation once again. He was sufficiently aware of the secret and scandalous rationale and of the hidden agendas which were then being played out across Europe and the world. For Benito Mussolini there was no way out! He was forced to choose and to act. He wasgiven no choice in these vicious, cruel and devious International Affairs. He knew that if Adolph Hitler’s government was defeated in Germany by the Allies, that in a matter of days Italy would be militarily invaded and be forced to replace its
Fascist Government.
Much of the fault for the war lays mainly with the citizens of the world who believed all that they were told and were given to read without question or further inquiry and who willingly send their sons and daughters away to war albeit some were compelled to do so by the Conscription Legislation Requirement of their own government. Long periods of economic depression and long lines of unemployed men were also useful for the creation of instant armies. These same citizens themselves soon became the prime targets of war in their own cities and houses with the
advent of new and highly lethal equipment of air warfare which changed the concept of a battlefield of warfare forever.
Germany and The Soviet Union signed a mutual Non-Aggression Pact on August 23, 1939, one week before England and France declared war on Germany, September 3, 1939. On September 17 Soviet Russia invaded Eastern Poland with the full knowledge of England and France. The German- Russian Non-Aggression Pact was terminated on June 22, 1941. On February 28, 1942 England and the United States signed a Anglo-American Mutual Aid Agreement, which included a program to supply the Soviet Russia with an unprecedented amount of war centered finances and vast supplies of military equipment produced primarily in the U.S.A. In reality what the Allies did with this agreement was rent a country to absorb the full brunt of the powerful and disciplined
German Army’s attacks. The Russian Front proved to be The War Front which saved theAllies in
Europe until the U.S.A. entered fully into the war after December 7, 1941 and subsequently invaded Europe.
Soviet Russia, with 18 million war dead, was duped into entering a war of ideological and economic survival by the Western Allied leaders and as a result of their decision suffered these great losses of men and much of its national infrastructure. Today Russia finds it self a nation beholden to the Western Nations for its economic survival and plays a secondary role in the International affairs of the new world order of nations. Poland with over five million war dead ranks second in the list of martyred lives. This is the very nation that England and France swore
to protect even if war was needed to assure their freedom and independence.
Mussolini had no dealings in these national and international European War maneuvers, except for his own decisions to protect Spain from an clear and present danger of becoming a Communist State and the removal of Spain’s then Reigning King. and in Ethiopia where he inherited a long held Italian legacy and anger of the memory of 14,000 Italian soldiers being massacred at the blood-drenched battlefield of Aduwa in 1896. These soldiers were literally cut to pieces by Emperor Melenik II’s tribal armies of Ethiopia.
He declined all invitations of international travel to attend conferences and meetings, saying “My business is here in Italy” At the behest of Neville Chamberlain, then Britain’s Prime Minister, he chaired and animated the historical Peace Agreements signed at Munich Germany, on September 29, 1938.
Winston Churchill, far from being the wise, brave, British Statesman/Saint as he is now painted, was never the less a knowledgeable factotum in the affairs of modern Europe. He understood that Britain alone was no military match for the renewed German Military might which Britain now faced, as a result of their declaration of war against Germany on September 3, 1939. By this declaration Britain and France put both of their countries at risk and grave danger. The Germa Army swept through Belgium and France in only two months of early 1940 and completely destroyed the British and French armies gathered there to defend the Western Front of the war.
The Great wall of France, the Marginot Line took twenty-one years to build and was designed as a protective wall of defense from any advancing armies from the East. It stretched from Switzerland in the North to the Mediterranean in the South. It was a series of underground, ultramodern tunnels of defense which failed in the face of the onslaught of the German Army on which France had the audacity to declare war. The German army was now only 25 miles away from the British Coastline and 90 miles from London. One unexplained and unexplored aspect of the war remains an open question: If England was truly the ultra archenemy in the eyes othe Germans,
the German Military might could have invaded England and found total victory there within weeks or months. Instead England was seen to the German Command as a tottering old lady whose time had now past after a dubious career of instigating and meddling in the affairs of other nations. The Germans did not attack with its full military might. If they had it would have meant that the United States would have had to invade England from three thousand miles away in order to overthrow the German occupation of Great Britain. England now was in an immediate need
of a military savior. They acquired two in 1941 — The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On September 29, 1941, Russia, England and The U.S.A. signed a mutual aid agreement in Moscow when Joseph Stalin, Averell Harriman of the U.S.A. and Canadian born, Baron William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, of England concluded a Lend Lease Agreement which guaranteed that Russia could afford to open a Second Front against Germany in Eastern Europe. At the time Russia’s Soviet Comintern was Western Capitalism’s sworn enemy, committed to an ideology which had a goal to conquer and dissolve the economic and
social fabric of the Western Capitalist nations of the world — they had been committed to this economic revolutionary goal since 1917 at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
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