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Japan invades Manchuria
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Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -
Battle of Bataan
march in the Philippines of some 66 miles (106 km) that 76,000 prisoners of war (66,000 Filipinos, 10,000 Americans) were forced by the Japanese military -
Bombing of Tokyo
referred to as a series of firebombing raids, was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II -
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Battle of Coral Sea
naval battleI between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Japanese Internment Camps
forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. -
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Battle of Midway
a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, happened 6 months after Japan’s attack. -
Korematsu v. United States
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. -
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Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II., and Okinawa - the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II -
Hiroshima
dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, final stage of WWII. -
Nagasaki
dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities