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Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Marco Polo Bridge Incident was a battle between China's National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army. This battle is one of the warfares that led to WWII in the pacific side of the world. -
Rape of Nanking
Rape of Nanking occurred during the six week of Japanese's capture of the city of Nanking, the formal capital of China. Rape Nanking was a massive massacre that happened on December 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. By this massacre, hundreds of the thousands of Chinese Civilians and disarmed soldiers were killed and murdered by the soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army. -
Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact
Soviet-Japanese Neautrality Pact is a pact between Empire of Japan and Soviet Union, signed in April 13th, 1941, which was two years after Soviet-Japanese Border War. -
US Oil Embargo on Japan
US initiates oil embargo with Japan, directly targeted to weaken Japan’s military and economic strength -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor happened just before 8 in the morning of December 7th 1941, hundreds of flights of Japanese fighters attacked American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. They managed to devastate almost 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. The day after Japanese attack on US naval, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of midway was the most important naval battle of the Pacific theater of World War II.United States' decisive victory against the Japanese naval fleet that crippled the majority of the Japanese military strength. -
Bomb on Nagasaki
Before Japan even got to comprehend the devestation that happened in Hiroshima, the United States once again used a deadly massive weapon, the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Buildings collapsed, electrical systems were shorted, and the wave of secondary fires resulted, adding to their holocaust. -
Bomb on Hiroshima
On August 5th 1945, the United States used a deadly massive weapon on Japan, Hiroshima. The atomic bomb flattened Hiroshima killing tens of thousands of civilians. -
Jappan finally surrenders
By the time Japan surrendered, the Japanese navy and air forcces were destroyed, result of bombing, the cities had left the country and its economy devastated. Surrender of Japan brough the hostality of the WWII to a close.
