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Japanese's invasion in Manchuria and China led to them attacking British and United States' forces in Asia.
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Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong, Philippines, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Malaya, Singapore, and Burma had fell to Japan.
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Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States fleet on Pearl Harbor, which lead to the US declaring war on Japan.
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The United States declared war on Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack. This event officially started the war.
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Nazi Germany, Japan’s Axis ally, declared war on the United States, which forced the US into a two-front war.
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American naval win military success in this battle, and made Japan sustained heavy losses and turned back.
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In August 1942, American attacked the Japanese in the Solomon Islands, forcing Japan to withdraw from the island of Guadalcanal in February 1943. Allied forces slowly moved from island to island and gained naval power.
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The US forced suicidal Japanese air attacks to onquered Okinawa, which made it suffer a lot of casualties and relate to the drop of the atomic bomb.
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The US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, it dropped a bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. At least 120,000 civilians died as a result of the two bombs.
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Japan surrendered to the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union and ended the war in the Pacific.