WWII in the Pacific

By wiresegal

  • Comfort Women

    The Japanese military enslaved Korean women as prostitutes for the men of the army to... 'relieve' themselves with.

  • Japanese Expansion

    Japan invaded China using racist ideas of superiority over other asian cultures.

  • Rape of Nanking

    The Japanese forces slaughtered and mass-raped the citizens of Nanking.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Intended as a preventative strike to stop the US responding to Japanese expansion, it ended up bringing the US into war against Japan instead.

  • Island Hopping

    A strategy employed by the US, taking over strategic islands controlled by Japan in the Pacific as military base points.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagisaki

    A highly controversial and singleton use of nuclear weapons, the US used them to force Japan to end the war.

  • VJ Day

    Japan surrenders. The leader of the military commits suicide to shield the emperor from his perceived dishonor.