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Italy

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'''Italy''' is a country in [[Europe]]. It was the heart of the Renaissance and Italian [[Renaissance]] artists such as [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Donatello]], [[Michelangelo]], [[Titian]], [[Tintoretto]], [[Caravaggio]], and [[Giotto]] produced many great works. Major cities include Rome, Milan, Naples (Napoli), Legova (Livorno), Siena, and Gerona.

[[Rome]] is its capital. [[Vatican City]], the governmental center of the [[Roman Catholic Church]], lies entirely within the boundaries of Rome. The sovereign state of [[San Marino]] is also entirely within Italy.

==Italian politicians==

Vittorio Orlando was an Italian statesman and prime minister during the end of [[World War I]]. He lived from May 19, 1860 to December 1, 1952. Orlando represented his country at the [[Paris Peace Conference]].

[[Benito Mussolini]] was the [[Fascist]] dictator of Italy during [[World War II]].

== See also ==

*[[Painting Masterpieces]]

[[Category:European Countries]]
[[Category:NATO members]]
[[Category:EU Members]]

Dominican Republic

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Two thirds of the Caribbean island [[Hispaniola]] is known as the '''Dominican Republic'''.

Columbus' ship the Santa Maria reached the island on Christmas Eve 1492. The settlement there was named "La Navidad". It was was given to [[Spain]] in the [[Treaty of Tordesillas|Line of Demarcation]] set up by the Pope in 1515.

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Kingdom of Sweden

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Kingdom of the Netherlands

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Kingdom of Norway

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Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

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Republic of Finland

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Kingdom of Denmark

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British India

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Dominion of New Zealand

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Union of South Africa

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Commonwealth of Australia

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French Third Republic

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Republic of Poland

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Allied Powers of World War II

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The term '''Allied Powers''' (or simply '''Allies''') refers to the union of countries that fought against the Central Powers in [[World War I]] and the [[Axis Powers]] in [[World War II]]. The exact make-up of nations within the Allied Powers was different during each war. The major allied powers during both World Wars were Britain, France, Russia and America.

=Allies of World War II=

==Neutrals in 1939==

=== [[Oslo Group of States]]===
* [[Kingdom of Denmark]]
* [[Republic of Finland]] [http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1939/391214a.html League of Nations' Expulsion of the USSR, December 12, 1939]
* [[Grand Duchy of Luxembourg]]
* [[Kingdom of Norway]]
* [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]
* [[Kingdom of Sweden]]

===Original Allies===

* [[French Third Republic]]
* [[Republic of Poland]]
* [[United Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]

=== British Commonwealth ===

*[[Commonwealth of Australia]]
*[[Dominion of New Zealand]]
*[[Union of South Africa]]
*[[Canada|Dominion of Canada]]
*[[British India|India]]

=== [[Comintern]] Allies ===

* [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]]
* [[People's Liberation Army|Chinese People's Liberation Army]] of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (from 1923)
* [[International Brigades]]
* [[Polish People's Army]] (Armia Ludowa) (from 1943)
* [[Popular Front]]
* [[History_of_Albania#The_Communist_and_Nationalist_Resistance|Albanian National Liberation Army]]
* [[Communist Party of Yugoslavia]]
* [[Greek_Civil_War#Background:_1941-44|Greek National Liberation Front]]
* [[Malayan Communist Party]]
* [[Mongolian People's Republic]]
* [[Viet Minh]]

=== Pan American Union ===
21 members in full [http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/7-2-188/188-26.html](21
[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/decade/decad058.htm Havana Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, July 21-30,1940 ] <br>
(Final Act of the Second Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics at Habana, Cuba, July 30, 1940)

* [[United States of America]]
* [[Bolivia]]
* [[Brazil]] (25 August 1942)
* [[Colombia]]
* [[Costa Rica]]
* [[Cuba]]
* [[Dominican Republic]]
* [[El Salvador]]
* [[Guatemala]]
* [[Haiti]]
* [[Honduras]]
* [[Mexico]] (1 June 1942)
* [[Nicaragua]]
* [[Panama]]

=== [[Atlantic Charter]] ===
[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/atlantic/at17.htm The Atlantic Conference : Resolution of September 24, 1941]

* [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]
* [[United States of America ]]
* [[Belgium|Kingdom of Belgium]]
* [[Czechoslovak Republic]]
* [[History_of_Modern_Greece#Wars_and_crises|Kingdom of Greece]]
* [[Grand Duchy of Luxembourg]]
* [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]
* [[Kingdom of Norway ]]
* [[Republic of Poland]]
* [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]]
* [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]
* [[French National Committee]]

The Polish government in exile, after 1939 fought on several fronts with hundreds of thousand of members in the [[Polish Army]] in France and UK, as well as the [[Home Army]] in occupied Poland. The Soviet Union however, did not recognize the government and in 1943 organized the [[Polish People's Army]] under [[Rokossovsky]], around which eventually became the post-war successor state.

=== United Nations Declaration ===
[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/paw/274.html Declaration by United Nations, January 1, 1942]<br>

* [[United States of America]]
* [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]
* [[Republic of China]] ([[Kuomintang]])
* [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]]
* [[Australia|Commonwealth of Australia]]
* [[Belgium|Kingdom of Belgium]]
* [[Canada|Dominion of Canada]]
* [[Republic of Costa Rica]]
* [[Republic of Cuba]]
* [[Czechoslovak Republic]]
* [[Dominican Republic]]
* [[El Salvador|Republic of El Salvador]]
* [[History_of_Modern_Greece#Wars_and_crises|Kingdom of Greece|Kingdom of Greece]]
* [[Guatemala|Republic of Guatemala]]
* [[Haiti|La Republique d' Haiti]]
* [[Honduras|Republic of Honduras]]
* [[British_India#World_War_II_and_the_End_of_the_Raj|India]]
* [[Grand Duchy of Luxembourg]]
* [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]
* [[Dominion of New Zealand]]
* [[Nicaragua|Republic of Nicaragua]]
* [[Kingdom of Norway]]
* [[Panama|Republic of Panama]]
* [[Republic of Poland]]
* [[Union of South Africa]]
* [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]

(Note from source document: During 1942 the Declaration was adhered to by [[Mexico]], the [[Commonwealth of the Philippines]], and [[Ethiopia]]; in the first four months of 1943, it was adhered to by [[Iraq]], [[Brazil]], and [[Bolivia]]).

===Tripartite Treaty of Alliance ===
29 January 1942

* [[United Kingdom]]
* [[Soviet Union]]
* [[Iran]] [http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/persian/chapter01.htm#b2]

===Other Allies===

* [[Ethiopia]]
* [[Commonwealth of the Philippines]]

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Allied

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D-Day

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'''D‑Day''' was June 6, 1944, when [[Allied]] forces began their invasion of continental [[Europe]] in order to free it from [[Nazi]] ([[German]]) control. On this day, the Allied forces accomplished the largest amphibious invasion in the history of mankind on the beaches of [[Normandy]], [[France]]. The operation used 200,000 men, 9,000 planes, and 5,000 ships.

The landings were originally scheduled for June 5, but bad weather and heavy cloud cover on June 4 forced General [[Eisenhower]] to postpone the attack. The next day, the weather had not improved much, but the Allied commanders decided that a delay would be too costly.

Prior to the landings in Normandy, a huge deception campaign was started by the Allies. Radio transmissions were deliberately allowed to be intercepted saying that the landings would be at Calais, not Normandy. Also, on the days before the attack, squadrons of bombers dropped flakes of tin foil on the route to Calais to try to fool the German radar into thinking an Allied fleet was advancing toward Calais. The deception worked, becasue on the day of the actual invasion, much of the German's main army was held back in anticipation of the "real" invasion coming in [[Calais]].

== The Night ==

Starting before dawn, elite paratroopers and soldiers in gliders landed behind enemy lines to take out critical gun emplacements. When the planes were flying to their drop zones, they ran into some cloud cover. Naturally, their formations spread apart because the pilots were afraid they would collide with other planes. As a result, the paratroopers and glider-borne infantry were scattered and, in some cases, miles from their intended drop zones. When they landed, they encountered many problems. The Germans had flooded many low areas, and the paratroopers, weighed down by their chutes and gear, often drowned in just a few feet of water. Those that were lucky enough to survive the landing then had to get their bearings, regroup, and accomplish their objectives. The case of the Merville Battery shows why these men made up the [[Greatest Generation]].

The Merville Battery consisted of four heavy guns in a massive concrete emplacement pointed at Sword beach. It was protected by mine fields and antitank ditches, a 15 foot thick hedge of barbed wire, more mine fields, a maze of machine-gun-filled trenches, and a garrison of 200 men. The plan was to have 100 bombers drop 4,000 pound bombs on the battery. Glider trains were to bring in jeeps, antitank guns, and flamethrowers, Bangalore torpedoes (to cut through the barbed wire), mine detectors, mortars, and ladders. When the ground troops moved in, three gliders filled with men were to crash land on the battery, and if there is no success signal by 5:30, naval bombardment would commence. In reality, Bombing attack failed, and the glider train was lost. Only 150 men of 700 could be found, and that took so much time that they only had one hour to take the battery. They did not have the signal to give to the gliders that were to crash-land on it, so the gliders did not land on the battery. In spite of all this, they still managed to take the battery.

Before the beach invasions began, 9,000 planes and hundreds of warships bombarded the coast. The craters are still visible in many places, including [[Point du Hoc]].

== The Longest Day ==

American soldiers landed at Omaha and Utah beahces, while the British and [[Canadian]] forces landed at Sword, Juno, and Gold beaches. The [[British]] forces at Juno faced light resistance thanks to bombardment by the Allied Navy. The [[Americans]] Utah beach faced the lightest resistance; out of 23,000 soldiers, there were only 197 casualties. However, at Sword, the Canadians faced 11 heavy batteries of 155 mm guns, 9 medium batteries of 75 mm guns, machine-gun nests, pillboxes, other concrete fortifications, and a seawall twice the height of the one at Omaha Beach. The first wave suffered a 50% casualty rate. Omaha beach was the bloodiest landing zone; 2,500 of the 10,000 casualties occured at Omaha. It was defended by 8 concrete bunkers with 75 millimeters or larger guns, 35 pillboxes, 4 batteries of artillery, 18 antitank guns, 6 mortar pits, 35 rocket-launching sites, and more than 85 machine-gun nests.

One of many bizarre historical coincidences, almost none of the German commanders were at the front on the day of the invasion. Rommel was back in Germany to speak with [[Hitler]] and for his wife's birthday, June 6. Von Tempelhof, Army Group B’s operations officer, was in Germany. Admiral Theodor Krandke, the naval commander in the west, was in Bordeaux. Major General Heinz Hellmich, Lieutenant General Karl von Schlieben, and Major General Wilhelm Falley were on their way to war games in Rennes. Colonel Wilhelm Meyer-Detring was on leave, and Hitler was at his Berchtesgaden retreat in [[Bavaria]].

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German army doctrine also said to hold the Panzers in reserve several miles away from the beaches and allow the Allies to land, then pound them with the Panzers once the troops had landed. Even after the Allies had landed, Hitler held the main Panzer force in reserve because he thought that the landings in Normandy were a diversion and the real invasion would come in Calais and be commanded by General [[George S. Patton]].

The Normandy invasion signalled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany, and the [[Allies]] would be slowed very little once the main force had landed. Two artificial ports were created that provided a constant supply of reinforcements. The day would be remembered in years to come as the "Longest Day".

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Port Arthur

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'''Port Arthur''' (also called Lüshun) is a port city in [[China]]. Control of the city caused tension between many countries in the area throughout history, and an attack on the city was the cause for the [[Russo-Japanese War]].

Russo-Japanese War

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The '''Russo-Japanese War''' was a short conflict between the Empires of [[Russia]] and [[Japan]] from 1904-05. The two countries were competing over trade rights in [[Manchuria]] and [[Korea]]. The Japanese declared war and attacked [[Port Arthur]] (now Lüshun, [[China]]). The loss of the battle (and eventually the war) on the part of Russia reduced public support of [[Czar Nicholas II]]. The war's effects on Russia would contribute to the social turmoil that would culminate in the [[Russian Revolution]].

Missouri

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[[Image:Missouri_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Missouri.]]

'''Missouri''' is a Midwestern state that was admitted to the Union as a slave state on August 10, 1821. Its nickname is the "Show Me State". Its capital is [[Jefferson City]] and its largest cities are, respectively, [[Kansas City]], [[St. Louis]], and Springfield. Missouri borders [[Illinois]], [[Kentucky]], [[Tennessee]], [[Arkansas]], [[Oklahoma]], [[Kansas]], [[Iowa]], and [[Nebraska]].

==Gun Laws==
The minimum age to purchase or own a handgun is 21, and the minimum age to get a concealed carry permit is 23.

==Miscellaneous==

The term "Missouri" comes from an Algonquin word roughly translating to "river of the big canoes". <ref>http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/missouri/</ref>

St. Louis hosted the World's Fair in 1904, where the ice cream cone was invented. <ref>http://www.50states.com/facts/mo.htm</ref>

The mule is the state animal.

==Notable Missourians==

*Former Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]] used to live in Springfield.
*Five star general [[Omar Bradley]] was from Clark.
*Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as [[Mark Twain]], was from Hannibal.
*Poet [[T.S. Eliot]] was from St. Louis.
*Political commentator [[Rush Limbaugh]] is from Cape Girardeau.
*President [[Harry Truman]] lived in Lamar and Independence.
*Journalist [[Catherine J. Sambark]]

==References==
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St. Louis

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'''St. Louis''' is the largest city in the state of [[Missouri]]. It sits on the western bank of the [[Mississippi River]], and is famous for its giant arch.

Illinois

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[[Image:Illinois_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Illinois.]]

'''Illinois''' was the twenty-first state to enter into the union. Its capital is Springfield, and the largest city is [[Chicago]]. Illinios is bordered by [[Indiana]], [[Kentucky]], [[Missouri]], [[Iowa]], and [[Wisconsin]].

====Politics====
Illinois can be viewed as having a more liberal concentration in the northeastern portion of the state. This is often attributed to the large metropolitan area surrounding [[Chicago]]. While the southern and western portions of the state are typically more conservative. The state capitol is [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]], and there is political tension about state lawmakers who spend too much of their time in either Chicago or Springfield.

The population distribution has lead Illinois to lean politically to the left in most recent non-local elections. Many consider Illinois to be a liberal stronghold, especially in regard to presidential elections.

Currently, Illinois has a Democratic governor, [[Rod Blagojevich]], but has elected Republican governors in the recent past, such as George Ryan, who controversially emptied the state's death row..

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Indiana

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[[Image:Indiana_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Indiana.]]

'''Indiana''' is the nineteenth state to enter the union. Its capital and largest city is [[Indianapolis]]. Indiana is bordered by [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]], [[Illinois]], and [[Michigan]].

==Notable people from Indiana==

*Notorious bank robber [[John Dillinger]] was born in Brightwood.
*Astronaut Gus Grissom was born in Mitchell.
*Former President [[Benjamin Harrison]] lived in Indianapolis and represented Indiana as a Senator.
*[[William Henry Harrison]], a former President and the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, was the first governor of Indiana territory.
*Singer Michael Jackson is from Gary.
*Comedian David Letterman was born in Indianapolis.
*[[Mike Pence]] is a current Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Indiana and has been mentioned a possible candidate for the presidency.
*Former Vice President [[Dan Quayle]] was born in Indianapolis.
*Harland David Sanders (also known as Colonel Sanders), founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, was born in Henryville.

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Ohio

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[[Image:Ohio_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Ohio.]]

'''Ohio''' is located in the Midwestern region of the [[United States]] and on March 1st, 1803 became the seventeenth state to enter into the union. During the [[American Civil War]] Ohio supported the United States. The capital of Ohio is [[Columbus (city)|Columbus]] which is also its largest city. Other large cities in Ohio include [[Cincinnati]] and [[Cleveland]]. Ohio borders the states of [[Indiana]], [[Kentucky]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Michigan]], and [[West Virginia]]. The current governor of Ohio is Ted Strickland, a [[Democrat]].

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Ohio

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[[Image:Ohio_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Ohio.]]

'''Ohio''' is located in the Midwestern region of the [[United States]] and on March 1st, 1803 became the seventeenth state to enter into the union. During the [[American Civil War]] Ohio supported the United States. The capital of Ohio is [[Columbus (city)|Columbus]] which is also its largest city. The current governor of Ohio is Ted Strickland, a [[Democrat]].

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Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

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