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apan won
Battle of MidwayUnited States won this war big time
United Sates lost 137 aircraft and 300 men
Japanese lost over 330 and 3,500 men
Japan was never the same again
United States broke up all their radio waves
Battle of Guadalcanal
Series of battles fought on land and sea
Allied forces, mostly U.S troops launched an attack
Allies succeeded to capture the island
Needed over 6 months to break apart Japan
United States suffered heavy losses not as much as Japan
Battle of Iwo JimaFought a small island
U.S. Marines invaded after moths of naval and air bombardmen
Never put any loosing battles for their people to see
Soldiers couldn't talk about loosing
Tried hiding anytime they were loosing the war
Military leader who planned Pearl Harbor committed suicide because the United States did not do what they thought they would do because they thought they would get out and stay out but they came into the war
Jappense Military leaders would commit suicide rather then face what they had done
Destroyed American ships and planes and killed several people on Pearl Harbor
Launched an attack on Britain60,000 prisoners of war
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Italy
March on Rome
Mussolini led members of the fascist party to Rome to seize power of the Italian government
Luigi Facta- Prime Minister
King Victor Emmanuel 111
They all just stepped down and gave Mussolini power
October 28,1922
Italy Joining Axsis Powers
Rome- Berlin Axis- October 21,1936
Stated all the countries of Europe will one day rotate around Rome
Benito Mussolini
Organized a fascist revolution in Italy
Came to power in 1922
Turned Italy into a legal dictatorship in 1925
Founder of Fascism
Allied with his Adolf Hitler
Allies invade in 1943, and he is voted out of power and arrested
Rescued from prison by German special forces
Captured by Italian Communists in 1945 and died in April
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Russia dropped out of WWI to fight Bolshevik Revolution
Russia became communist and changed name to USSR
Purges and deportations to slave labor camps in Siberia
Strengthened the intelligence and secret service
Created a "Cult of Personality"
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