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preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu.
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was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war
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decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on June 4, 1942, six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor
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Both engagements occurred towards the end of the Pacific War, as the United States sought to capture strategically important territories ahead of a planned invasion of Japan.
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom
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Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
