WW2: Pacific Theater

By david.wang01

  • Japan invades China

    This action initiated WW2 in the Pacific

  • Nanking Massacre

    A brutal massacre killing between 50,000 to 300,000

  • The Tripartite Pact is signed (Germany, Italy, Japan)

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    This marked the USA's entrance into WW2

  • Battle of Midway

    The US navy inflicted heavy, irreparable damage to Japan's fleet, named "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare"

  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    The largest naval battle in WW2 (or, in certain lenses, history).

  • US drops atomic bomb over Hiroshima

  • Soviet Union declares war on Japan, invading Manchuria

  • US drops atomic bomb over Nagasaki

  • Japan unconditionally surrenders

    This marks the end of WW2