Monday- Japan: Only the victories in the newspapers, soldiers returning from midway were not allowed to communicate, Japan was not as industrial as USA or Great Britain, relied on imports seized oil and rubber in Oceania and Southeast Asia, but couldn't move to factories, Yamamoto attended Japanese naval Academy, 3 years later attended Harvard. Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th, 1941, Battle of Singapore happened on February 8th, 1942, Battle of Midway, June 3rd, 1942, Battle of Guadalcanal happened on August 7th, 1942, Battle of Iwo Jima fought February 19 to march 26 1945,
Italy: March On Rome: October 28th, 1922, Italy joined the axis powers powers on October 21st, 1936, Famous Italian General Politician, and field marshall Most radical form of nationalism
Tuesday- Battle of Britian: italy slightly participated in the battle, Crucial to the success of the Italian forces, fought for the control of trade, Axis never took full control of the Mediterranean, couldn't stop the allies from moving men and supplies british bi-planes torpedoes and sack much of the large ships in november 1940, Battle of Cape Matapan March 1941 ltaly lost everything. these two battles wrecked most of Italy's surface. Operation Husky: Purpose was to get a toehold in southern italy and then to hope of the rest of Italy to begin of taking out. took nearly a year for the Allies to reach Rome. Italy nearly became a communist country after the war.
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