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The United States opposed to the Japanese expansion in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and it caused conflict
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Allied leaders decided to use their massive military resources in the Mediterranean to launch an invasion of Italy, which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the "soft underbelly of Europe"
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A major naval battle of WWII that eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large scale carrier actions. It took place during the War in the Pacific
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A major battle in which the United states Marine Corps landed on eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII
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After Japan surrendered the War in the Pacific ended.