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Ultra-Nationalism starts to take over Japan
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Wall Street Crashes
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Fascism continues to rise in Japan
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Japan invade Manchuria
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Japan conquer Manchuria
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Japan's Prime Minster is assassinated
Japan's Prime Minster is assassinated for speaking out against the military -
Japan withdraw from the League of Nations
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Japan signs an alliance with NAZI Germany
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The start of the Second Sino-Japanese War
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The Rape of Nanjing
Japan commit one of the worst atrocities of the war, slaughtering between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese civilians and Prisoners of war. There were also mass rapes of Chinese women. -
Outbreak of World War 2
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Period: to
World War 2
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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America declare War on Japan
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Malaya falls
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Singapore Falls
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Darwin is Bombed
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The Dutch East Indies fall
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Doolittle Raids
the first bombing raid on Japan -
Burma Falls
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The Philippines fall
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Battle of the Coral Sea
May 4-May 8 -
Battle of Midway
4-7 June -
Battle of Guadalcanal
August 7 1942 - February 9 1943 -
battle of Tarawa
20-23 of November 1943 -
the start of strategic bombing on Japan
the first of the mass bomber raids on Japan -
Battle of Leyte
October 14 - December 31 1944 -
Battle of Okinawa
April 1- June 15 1945 -
Potsdam Conference
A conference held between Russia, America and Britain to decide on what to do about Japan and how to end the war. 17 July- 2 August 1945 -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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Japan Surrenders
Japan finally surrenders ending World War 2
