WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Italy
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Japan
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Austria
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Spain
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Detailed explanation-1: -Italy was the first Axis partner to give up. In late July 1943, leaders of the Italian Fascist Party deposed and arrested Fascist leader and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Italy surrendered to the Allies on September 8, 1943.
Detailed explanation-2: -Once the signing of the armistice was announced on 8 September, German troops quickly disarmed the Italian forces and took over critical defensive positions in Operation Achse.
Detailed explanation-3: -On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War II.
Detailed explanation-4: -On September 8, 1943, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
Detailed explanation-5: -The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China).