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Japan’s Kwantung army takes over Manchuria
This is also known as the Mukden Incident, or Manchurian Incident, was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria. wiki -
Japan bombs Shanghai
After Chinese boycotts of Japanese goods in response to the incursion Mukden incident, Japanese naval forces were despatched to Shanghai to ostensibly protect Japanese possessions in the area. This sparked a short but violent conflict in the city. The Shanghai Incident, as the Japanese would name the upcoming battle, began at dawn on the 28th January 1932. The shanghai incident -
Battle of Shanghai
The Battle of Shanghai was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) of the Empire of Japan at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. After over three months of extensive fighting on land, in the air and at sea, the battle concluded with a victory for Japan wiki -
Marco Polo Bridge Incident; Japan invades China
On this occasion, a Japanese soldier was temporarily absent from his unit opposite Wanping, and the Japanese commander demanded the right to search the town for him. When this was refused, units on both sides were put on alert, and the rising tension led to fire, which then escalated, even if the soldier had returned to his lines. The details are unclear, but the incident is reckoned as the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. wiki -
Rape of Nanjing begins
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), at that time the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. wiki -
Japan, Italy, and Germany sign Tripartite Mutual Defense Pact
The Tripartite Pact was one of a number of agreements between Germany, Japan, Italy, and other countries of the Axis Powers governing their relationship. The Tripartite Pact was directed primarily at the US. Its practical effects were limited since Italo-German and Japanese operational theatres were on opposite sides of the world, and the high contracting powers had disparate strategic interests. As such the Axis was only a loose alliance. wiki -
United States embargoes scrap metal and aviation fuel to Japan
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United States freezes Japanese assets, cutting off Japan’s access to trade and oil
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Wake, Guam, Hong Kong, and Malaya
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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