World War II: Timeline- Pacific Theater

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  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
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    World War II: Timeline- Pacific Theater

  • Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.

    Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.

  • 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.

  • Manhattan Project Launches

    Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt which told of a new field of physics that was showing that the element uranium could undergo nuclear fussion.

  • Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

    Around 8:00 a.m. hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at pearl Harbor.

  • The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II

    This was in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

  • MacArthur ordered out of the Philippines

    The American defense of the islands collapses.

  • British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway

    The US sunk 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.

  • Firebombing raids of Tokyo and other Japanese cities begin

    Launch a new bombing offensive against Japan, dropping 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo ocer the course of 48 hours.

  • Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands

    The "Bloodiest Battle"

  • Trinity test- Atomic Bomb

    Trinity was the code name of the 1st detonation of a nuclear weapon.

  • USS Indianapolis sunk

    Right after this ship sunk, naval intelligence decoded a message from the I-58 to its headquarters.

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

    Enola Gay is who dropped the 5 ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

  • The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria

    Used more than 1 million Soviet Soldiers.

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    This was three days after the bombing of Hiroshima

  • The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria

    More than 1 million soviet soldiers were poured into Manchuria.

  • Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II

    This was in the USS Missourri in Tokyo Bay