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Hideki Tojo launches an invasion into China
Japanese leaders wanted to take control of all of East Asia by seizing the colonial lands and they could do this because British could not stop them becaues they were busying fighting Hitler -
Tojo orders the Japanese navy to prepare for an attack on the United States
United States knew that Japan was going to attack because they had cracked their communication code but they did not know where they would attack -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
2,402 Americans killed
1,282 wounded -
U.S and Britain declare war on Japan
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Battle of Saipan
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FDR dies
President Frankling Delano Roosevelt dies at the age of 63 -
Korea gains indepence
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Little boy is dropped on Hiroshima
Little boy, the codename for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, kills 90,000–166,000 people -
Fat man is dropped on Nagasaki
Fat man, a codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, kills 60,000–80,00 people -
Japan accept unconditional surrender
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Japan surrenders
Japan offically surrenders -
Japanese in Korea surrender
