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Japan invades Manchuria
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. -
Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific
It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II dec 8 1941
as America’s Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan. -
MacArthur ordered out of the Philippines
President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders Gen. Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines, as the American defense of the islands collapses. -
Firebombing raids of Tokyo and other Japanese cities begin
Allied forces conducted many air raids on Japan during World War II, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people -
British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway
was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and 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. -
the Manhattan project launches
President Roosevelt signed an order creating a secret project to develop the nuclear weapon. The program that developed the atomic bomb for the United States during World War II was the largest secret project ever undertaken by the U.S. government. -
US troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands
US troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance at Guad -
Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands
was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the 1 April 1945 invasion of the island of Okinawa itself. -
Trinity test- Atomic Bomb
Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert -
USS Indianapolis sunk July 30, 1945
At a few minutes past midnight on July 30 two Japanese torpedoes tore into her side, igniting an explosion that broke the ship in two. It took only twelve minutes for the ship to dip her bow, roll to starboard and slip beneath the sea. Of her crew of 1,196, an estimated 900 survived the explosion -
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. -
The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria
On this day in 1945, the Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army. -
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender. -
Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II
By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed.