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Let talked about Joseph Stalin. He was the general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union's central committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. The year Lenin's death in 1924, he became the leader of the soviet union.
Soviet Union. {http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/british_tank.jpg} One of the picture of the German tanks

Aftermath
after this attack FDR gave his famous speech Infamy Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, calling to declare war on Japan, it din't a long time to request his answer. Then later on the same day the also declare war on German and Itaty.
So United States was trying to fight with their ships and plans but they were outnumbered by a bigger but powerful Japan ships and aircraft, just into two hours of this battle they have destroyed or sunk 18 ships, including 8 battleships. Not just ships was were destroyed, some American were killed and over than 1000 were wounded. As for Japan, nothing much for them considered that they won this battle, ships there was just n little of 30 aircraft and submarines.
{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/The_USS_Arizona_(BB-39)_burning_after_the_Japanese_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_-_NARA_195617_-_Edit.jpg/220px-The_USS_Arizona_(BB-39)_burning_after_the_Japanese_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_-_NARA_195617_-_Edit.jpg} This is picture of the pearl harbor getting destroy. {https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShjP8MPS1r-_B6daPqdjFHFmJJjLgpAglLagju6FYEc5DxtCFLWQ} Another picture of it in smoke.

Ramirez, Susan. Human Legacy. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2008. 443-444. Print.
"World War ll In The Pacific." Holocaust Encyclopedia. © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, 10 Jun 2013. Web. 17 Nov 2013. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005155>.
"The Pacific War." The War Times Journal. © 1999-2013 by The War Times Journal at www.wtj.com.. Web. 17 Nov 2013. <http://www.wtj.com/articles/pacific_summary/index_03.htm>.

Beck, Roger. Modern World History. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2003. 447-450. Print.
Ramirez, Susan. Human Legacy. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2008. 443-444. Print.
"World War ll In The Pacific." Holocaust Encyclopedia. © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, 10 Jun 2013. Web. 17 Nov 2013. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005155>.

{WWII-WAVES-@-NTS-Norman,-OK.jpg} WAVES training in Norman, OK.
Although they were not permitted to take part in combat, American women filled a variety of vital roles in the military. Their service helped make more men available for fighting. For example 10,000 women joined the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency service, or WAVES. This was a navy program in which women did necessary clerical work that would otherwise have to be performed by men. Some 1,00 women joined the Woman Air force Service pilots, WASP. They tested and delivered aircraft. Nearly 40 WASPs gave their lives serving the country. By far the largest women's unit was the Women's Army Corps, or WAC, in which 150.000 women served. At the start of the war, the unit was known as the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, or WAAC. It's members worked with, but were not part of the army. The WAACs repaired equipment, and required equipment, worked as {we-cant-win-without-them.jpg} We Can't Win Without Them: "Women in the War: We Can't Win Without Them" World War II poster. electricians, and performed many other jobs. By 1943 demand for their services was so great that the army created the WACs were full-fledged members of the army. 350,000 women served in the U.S. Armed Forces, both at home and abroad. At the urging of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and women's groups, and impressed by the British use of women in service, General George Marshall supported the idea of introducing a women's service branch into the Army. When the war began, defense contractors warned the selective service system that the nation did not have enough workers to meet both it's military and its industrial needs. They were wrong. By 1944, despite the draft, nearly 18 million workers were laboring in war industries, three times as many as in 1941. More than 6 million of the new workers were women. At first, war industries feared that most woman lacked the necessary stamina for factory work and were reluctant to hire them. Once woman proved they could operate welding torches or riveting guns as well as men, employers could not hire enough of them - especially since women earned only about 60% as much as men doing the same jobs. Defense plants also hired more than 2 million minority workers during the war years. Like women. minorities faced strong prejudice at first. Before the war 75% of defense contractors simply refused to hire African Americans, while another15% employed them only in menial jobs.
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“American Women in World War II .” 2013. The History Channel website. Nov 17 2013, 7:27 http://www.history.com/topics/american-women-in-world-war-ii.
"History Learning Site." Women in World War Two. © 2000-2013 HistoryLearningSite.co.uk. Web. 17 Nov 2013. <http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/women_WW2.htm>.

Ramirez, Susan. Human Legacy. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2008. 442 - 443. Print.
“Battle of Britain.” 2013. The History Channel website. Nov 17 2013, 7:18 http://www.history.com/topics/battle-of-britain.
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Keenly aware that American aircraft could fly where they wished over all of Japan, the country attempted to assess {s_w10_21105057.jpg} These Japanese prisoners were among those captured by U.S. forces on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands, shown November 5, 1942.what had occurred over Hiroshima. Three days later another atomic bomb was detonated over the city of Nagasaki. Again, tens of thousands were killed, confirming the ability of the United States to successfully build and deliver these powerful new weapons at-will. That same day the Soviet Union opened a massive offensive against Japanese forces in Manchuria where the Soviets used their better armored formations to devastating effect, overrunning the frontline in advances that were difficult for imperial high command to believe. Japanese forces opposing the Red Army began to lose men by the hundreds of thousands with not nearly enough damage inflicted in return to make up for their loss. Japan was losing control of the mainland.The entry of Russia into the war and the twin bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki spelled doom for Japan's trump card of national mobilization. Now the United States could pummel Japanese civilization into extinction without even setting foot on the home islands, and imperial army troops in China could do nothing to stop it. Indeed the later seemed bound for extinction. All of this undeniably bad news allowed those in favor of peace – {s_w14_31211146.jpg} Troops of the 165th infantry, New York's former "Fighting 69th" advance on Butaritari Beach, Makin Atoll, which already was blazing from naval bombardment which preceded on November 20, 1943. The American forces seized the Gilbert Island Atoll from the Japanese. including Japanese Emperor Hirohito – to have their way and on August 15, 1945, the Emperor announced to his nation that it would surrender "in order to save mankind" from nuclear oblivion. So powerful was the Japanese military and so deep was their conviction of ultimate victory or stalemate, even at this point the Emperor barely convinced many officers to stand down and accept surrender. More than a few committed suicide rather than accept the disgrace and others took days to convince of the finality of the Imperial decision. In some areas there was armed mutiny. The final surrender was signed on board the American battleship Missouri in Tokyo Harbor, ushering in a long period of recovery for all of the nations involved.
{34_World_War_II_in_the_Paci.gif} World War II in the Pacific
Beck,Works Cited
Beck, Roger. Modern 447-450. Print.
Ramirez,
Ramirez, Susan. Human 443-444. Print.
"THE WAR TIMES JOURNAL." THE PACIFIC WAR. The War Times Journal, n.d. Web. 29 Oct 2013.

{s_w15_01008011.jpg} People shelter and sleep on the platform and on the train tracks, in Aldwych Underground Station, London, after sirens sounded to warn of German bombing raids, on October 8, 1940. The government tried to confuse the German bombers by enforcing a 'blackout'. Street lamps were switched off, car headlights had to be covered and people had to hang black material in their windows at night so that house lights could not be seen. Going out at night could be dangerous during the blackout; cars crashed into each other and pedestrians, people walked into each other, fell off bridges or fell into ponds. After May 1941, the bombing raids became less frequent as Hitler turned his attention to Russia. Nevertheless, the effects of the Blitz were devastating. 60,000 people lost their lives, 87,000 were seriously injured and 2 million homes were destroyed.
{s_w29_00917193.jpg} A scene of devastation in the Dockland area of London attacked by German bomber on September 17, 1940.
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Ayers, Edward. American Anthem. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2007. 397-400. Print.
Ramirez, Susan. Human Legacy. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2008. 442 - 443. Print.
“Battle of Britain.” 2013. The History Channel website. Nov 17 2013, 7:18 http://www.history.com/topics/battle-of-britain.
"World War II". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
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