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US fleet forces Japan to open up to foreign influence.
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After three years of fighting, becoming one of the world's leading powers.
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Japan tries to establish buffer zone against Bolshevik regime in Russia's Pacific provinces, forced out by British and US diplomatic pressure and domestic opposition.
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-Extreme nationalism begins to take hold in Japan as world economic depression hits.
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Japanese army invades Chinese province of Manchuria, installs puppet regime.
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Japan signs alliance with Nazi Germany.
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It was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan
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On August 6, 1945, during World War II an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Japan launches a surprise attack on US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. US and main allies declare war on Japan.
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US forces are near enough to Japan to start bombing raids on Japanese cities.
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US planes drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August. Emperor Hirohito surrenders and relinquishes divine status. Japan placed under US military government.
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Japan signs peace treaty with US and other nations. To this day, there is no peace treaty with Russia, as the legal successor to the Soviet Union.
