That is the difference. France will fight hard before giving up, Italy... Well yeah.
I suppose that fighting for thirty-nine months does not count as "fighting hard"... while sitting on one's own butt for eight months doing absolutely nothing counts as "fighting hard"... (no disrespect intended, but this is kind of what happened during the "Phoney War").
Also keeping in mind that the former country had a GDP of $ 151 billion in 1939, a modest production of steel and few if any sources of energy and oil, while the latter had a GDP of $ 250 billion in the same year, copious amount of steel and energy and certainty of having the oil needed.
Not fighting very effectively, that is more correct.
I suppose that fighting for thirty-nine months does not count as "fighting hard"... while sitting on one's own butt for eight months doing absolutely nothing counts as "fighting hard"... (no disrespect intended, but this is kind of what happened during the "Phoney War").
Also keeping in mind that the former country had a GDP of $ 151 billion in 1939, a modest production of steel and few if any sources of energy and oil, while the latter had a GDP of $ 250 billion in the same year, copious amount of steel and energy and certainty of having the oil needed.
Not fighting very effectively, that is more correct.
*Pointing out that France, while having a larger GDP, had a larger military to fund and could not afford to even provide transportation for it's reserves
*Pointing out that the French army fought for the entirety of WWII (mostly as partisans in the resistance), it was only the Government that capitulated.