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Japan bombs the big military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This led to a war between Japan and the United States.
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By 1942, Japan had won extensive victories in Southeast Asian and the Pacific. hey ruled an empire that stretched from the Aleutian Islands near Alaska south to the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific, and from Wake Island west to Burma.
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The Japanese suffered their first major defeats to the United States
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American planes start bombing Japan. Japan refused to surrender.
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Japan gradually drives away from islands they had taken earlier.
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The Americans drop the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
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The U.S dropped the second, and the larger atomic bomb in Nagasaki. Japan and the restof the world were horrified by the results. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese were killed, many more were maimed, and parts of the cities were just rubble.
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General Douglas A. MacArthur gave the Japanese democratic constitution and gave Japan basic freedoms.
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In September 1951, Japan sign a peace treaty with the U.S.
