marched against his southern enemies. In Thessaly he defeated his enemies and by 352, he was firmly in control of this region. The Macedonian army advanced as far as the pass of Thermopylae which divides Greece in two parts, but it did not attempt to take it because it was strongly guarded by a joint force of Athenians, Spartans, and Achaeans. Having secured the bordering regions of Macedon, Philip assembled a large Macedonian army and marched deep into Thrace for a long conquering campaign. Catherine of Russia was also very satisfied. Throughout the war, Pearl Harbor was frequently used in American propaganda. This idealized vision of the Romanov monarchy blinded him to the actual state of his country. The Russian Empire was an agglomeration of diverse ethnicities that