World War II
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Japanese overrun Chinese Manchuria, resign from League of Nations
1937 Clashes between Japanese and Chinese develop into all-out war Japanese capture Peking, Shanghai, and other important cities
February: Japan siezes Hainan Island July: With the permission of the Vichy Government, Japan moves troops into northern Indochina September 27: Japan joins the Axis by signing the Tripartite Pact
June: Japan now occupies all of Indochina July 26: Roosevelt freezes all Japanese assests in the U.S., levies embargo on Japan October 17: General Hideki Tojo, war minister and leader of military extremists, becomes Prime Minister of Japan December 7: Japan unleashes surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. Pacific fleet is decimated December 8: U.S. Congress declares war on Japan, Britain declares war
on Japan December 10: Japanese air attacks sink two British warships near Malaya December 25: Hong Kong surrenders to Japan
January 1: Twenty-six nations sign the Declaration of the United Nations, forming a coalition against the Axis January 2: Japanese occupy Manila, MacArthur retreats to the Bataan peninsula February 15: British forces in Singapore surrender to Japan February 27 - March 1: Small Allied naval force destroyed in the Battle of the Java Sea March 7: British evacuate Burma March 9: Java unconditionally surrenders to Japanese April 9: U.S. forces on Bataan surrender to Japanese April 18: Famous "Doolittle Raid" on Tokyo shatters Japanese myth of the impregnability of the home islands May 4 - May 8: Battle of the Coral Sea May 6: Beginning of the Bataan Death March June 3 - June 6: Battle of Midway. Carrier U.S.S. Lexington sunk, Japan loses 4 carriers; sea power severely crippled August 7: U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal
February 7: Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal March 2 - March 4: Battle of the Bismarck Sea, large portion of Japanese fleet destroyed May 11: U.S. forces land in Aleutian Islands November 1: American troops land on Solomon Islands November 20: American marines land on Tarawa
February 2 - February 7: U.S. Marines capture Marshall Islands February 21: Tojo becomes military dictator of Japan July 9: American forces take Saipan after a month-long struggle July 21: U.S. troops establish beachheads on Guam August 10: Americans liberate Guam October 20: Americans land in the Philippines October 23 - October 26: Battle of Leyte Gulf, Japanese fleet suffers heavy losses November 6: Stalin renounces neutrality pact with Japan November 24: U.S. B-29's from Saipan bomb Tokyo
January 9: MacArthur's forces land on Luzon, 100 miles from Manila February 3: U.S. liberates Manila February 19: U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima February 23: Marines capture Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima March 9: Biggest bombing of Tokyo flattens 16 square miles and kills 100,000 March 26: Iwo Jima secured April 1: Americans invade Okinawa April 7: Suzuki becomes PM of Japan April 12: Roosevelt dies, succeeded by Truman May 3: Rangoon liberated by British June 21: Americans achieve victory on Okinawa July 4: MacArthur announces liberation of all of Philippines July 16: Atom bomb successfully tested in New Mexico August 6: Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima August 9: Atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki August 14: Japan surrenders unconditionally September 2: Japan signs formal surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay
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