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Manchuria
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Japan invades China
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Solomon Islands
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Period: to
Manhattan Project
Takes place in Los Alamos, New Mexico; come up with a nuclear bomb -
Battle of Coral Sea
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Battle of Midway Islands
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Iwo Jima/ Okinawa Battle
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Bombing of Hiroshima
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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VJ Day
Pacific Front War ends; Allied powers decide to help rebuild all of Western Europe and Japan