Mediterranean War

3. In September 1940 the Italians launched an offensive into which British protectorate from their North African colony in Libya.
4. In June 1940 the Italians attacked France with 28 divisions across the Alpes. In response Four French divisions replied by inflicting 5,000 casualties for a loss of how many of their own soldiers' lives.
5. the fall of this power in June 1940 meant the Italian navy had become the largest force in the Mediterranean
7. German forces occupied this nation at the invitation of its president
9. name given for Mussolini, meaning 'The Leader'
10. how many battleships made up the Italian Fleet in 1940
15. Allied forces, including Australians, had to evacuate this Greek island after a successful German airborne attack
16. (2) which type of ship did the British Fleets in the Mediterranean possess that were to be decisive weapons
17. This political ideology is based on the Italian term fascismo, meaning 'bundle of sticks', it emphasizes the cult of a great leader and putting the future of the nation above individual freedoms and democracy. Mussolini was considered its father.

1. name of the British ship which launched a successful attack on the Italian port of Taranto, crippling three battleships and two cruisers.
2. (4) despite being outnumbered by Italian forces, how many thousand prisoners did the British Western Desert Force capture after it went on the counter-attack into Libya.
6. Which ancient empire was the model for Mussolini's new empire.
8. When Benito Mussolini annexed the small Adriatic kingdom of Albania in April 1939, he was imitating Hitler’s annexation of which multi-ethnic nation which had occurred less than a year earlier.
11. the name for Ethiopia during and before WW2, invaded and colonized by Mussolini's Italy in 1935, by 1941 British forces has captured this territory in order to secure access and passage through the Red Sea and Suez Canal to its naval base at Alexandria, Egypt, and the rest of the Mediterranean
12. Hitler invaded this country via Yugoslavia and Bulgari in order to bail out the Italian forces.
13. Mussolini launched an invasion of this country from Albania after being 'put out' by the Hitler's occupation of a neighboring nation.
14. this island was an independent nation and a British protectorate close to Italy and was bombed mercilessly by German aircraft from bases in Sicily, it was effectively besieged for over two years.