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The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941From the standpoint of the defenders, the attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time.
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Hong Kong surrenders to Japan.
: Allied forces retake Benghazi.
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Japanese troops capture Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.
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Japanese troops invade the Solomon Islands.
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The Japanese capture Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies.
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Japanese troops entered Rangoon, Burma, which was abandoned by the British two days earlier. It appears that the Japanese are in control of Java, Burma, and New Guinea.The Secretary of War reorganizes the General Headquarters (GHQ), United States Army into three major commands - Army Ground Forces, Army Air Forces, and Services of Supply, the later of which is later redesignated Army Service Forces. At the same time, the four Defense commands and all Theaters Of Operations (TOPNS) are subordinat
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The invasion of the Philippines started on December 8, 1941, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan occupied the Philippines on 14th March 1942 for over three years, until the surrender of Japan.
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The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.
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The Second Battle of Guam (July 21 — August 10, 1944) was the American capture of the Japanese held island of Guam, a United States territory (in the Mariana Islands) during the Pacific campaign of World War II.
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On February 16, 1945, US troops recaptured Bataan in the Philippines from Japan, which led to the turning point in the Pacific.
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Burma (also known as myanmar) was recaptured by british on 4th March 1945 .
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Iwo Jima is finally secured after a month's fighting;the battle is the only time that the number of American casualties is larger than the Japanese's. Sporadic fighting will continue as isolated Japanese fighters emerge from caves and tunnels.
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There had been four cities chosen as possible targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Nagasaki, and Niigata.On August 6, 1945, the first choice target, Hiroshima, was having clear weather. At 8:15 a.m. (local time), the Enola Gay's door sprang open and dropped "Little Boy." The bomb exploded 1,900 feet above the city and only missed the target, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 feet.This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians.
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While the people of Japan tried to comprehend the devastation in Hiroshima, the United States was preparing a second bombing mission. The second run was not delayed in order to give Japan time to surrender, but was waiting only for a sufficient amount of plutonium-239 for the atomic bomb.At 11:02 a.m., the atomic bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped over Nagasaki. The atomic bomb exploded 1,650 feet above the city.
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Japanese armies surrender to the Red Army in Manchuria.
