Select the correct answer. Why did Italy join Hitler and not its World War I allies?

A.
Mussolini believed that Italians and Germans were of a superior race.
B.
Mussolini had strained relations with Britain and France.
C.
Britain had demanded Italy to pay money for its admission into the Allied Powers.
D.
Italy felt bad for Germany because Germany was fighting a lone battle.
E.
Mussolini wanted to betray Hitler after winning the initial battles.

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because portia wants to know why brutus has been acting strange lately.

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the options of this question are:

a) president wilson’s desire to form the league of nations  

b) germany’s desire for reasonable conditions of surrender and fair treatment.  

c)europe’s desire to maintain original pre-war borders  

d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions

the correct answer is d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions.

the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions had the greatest influence on how germany was treated after world war i.

it is estimated that the cost of wwi was around 260 billion dollars, and the allies wanted germany to pay a big part for the losses. the allies also wanted to impose land losses as well as limit the army of germany and confiscate their industrial resources to apply the retribution.

in the united states, president woodrow wilson created the fourteen points to be delivered to germany, as a peace program. he presented these documents to the u.s. congress in january 1918.