MON:
Japab continued
Major battles
Pearl harbor
Honolulu Hawaii
Japan won
Midway battle
America won
battle that turned everything around
America won through "magic"
America new about japanese plans
every battler after april 1942 america won, japan lost
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jiman
reason why japan lost the war
lack of food supply - rationed 1000 calorie meals
atomic bombs
Impact on Japan
- japan was devastated
- food shortage
- industries and transportation networks were severly damages
- japan lost all the land
Italy
March on Rome
- Oct 28 1922
- Mussolini led members of the fascist party to rome to seize power of italian government
- Luigi Facta - Prime minister
-King Victor Immanuell
Italy joining the axis powers
- rome, berlin axis - october 21, 1936
- stated that all countries of europe will one day rotate around the rome berlin axis
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Benito Mussolini
- organized a fascist revolution in Italy
- came to power in1922
- turned Italy into a legal dictatorship in 1925
- fonder of fascism
- allied with his friend adolf hitler
Giovanni Messe
- italian general
- greatest leader of ww2
Fascism
- most radical form of fascism
- originated in italy
- created by Mussolini
- encouraged extreme militarism and nationalism
Italian propaganda
- unify the nation and create a modern roman empire
TUE:
- Germany came in to help Italy
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- byritish troops advanced from the east through Lybia
- US and British troops landed in Morocco and Algeria and advanced west
- pinned the german and italian troops into the small country of tunisia
- axis surrendered
Battle of britain
- Italy slightly participated in the battle
- send around 200 aircraft carrying 1200 lbs
The Mediterranean
- crucial to the success of the Italian forces
- fought for control of the trade
- axis never took full control of the mediterranean
- couldn't stop the allies
Battle of Taranto
Cape Matapan
- march 1941
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- attack the island of Sicily
- to begin taking italy out
Invasion of itlay
- stalin wanted a second front opened in europe
- allies knew they couldn't invade france in 1943
- "soft underbelly of the axis"
- took nearly a year for the allies to reach rome
results
- much of the counrty was destroyed
- mussolini was deposed in 1943
- nazis still maintiained power
- postwar situation was not good
- italy nearly became a communist country after the war bbecause of economic hardship
- part of bigger plan to prevent this US created the Marshall plan
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