[the_individual2014]

Yeah unlike the Japanese who pulled their weight, Mussolini didn’t that much, he was a drain upon the Axis powers and it showed.

[dfwgator]

Even the Greeks kicked Italy’s butts right back into Albania.

[nickcarraway]

I wonder how hard Hitler tried to get Japan to invade Russia, when Germany did. Japan's major value as an ally was opening up two fronts for Russia.

I think FDR was totally suckered for only requiring Russia to go to war against Japan, until three months after VE day. The U.S. should not have helped the USSR one bit until the USSR was willing to go to war against Japan.

Japan surrendered not because of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, they surrendered because Russia invaded, and sliced through their mainland defenses.

The Japanese meeting that agreed to surrender happened before the second bomb was dropped, but the morning after Russia's invasion.