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Nanking Massacre
In the late 1937, over a time of six weeks, Japanese army forces brutally murdere hundreds of thousands of people. Those people include soldiers and civilians in the Chinese city o Nanking. The horrific events are known as the Nanking Massacre rape or the rape of Nanking, 20,000 to 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. -
Pearl Harbor Bombing
Japanese planes attacked the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The bombing killed more than 2300 Americans, it also completely destroyed the U.S.S Arizona. The attack sank a total of twelve ships and damaged nine others. -
Invasion of Malaya and Singapore
The invasion fleet left the port of Samah on Dec 4, 1941.On this date after some fighting at Kota Bharu, the Japanese troops took coast cities of Sinagpore, Patani, and Kota Bharu.Brithish planes attempted to attack landing ships, but Japanese troops made beachhead at Kota Bharu within three hours despite the air distraction. -
Japan invades Hong Kong
On this day, Japanese troops land in Hong Kong and a slaughter ensues. A week of air raids over Hong Kong, a British crown colony, was followesd up on Dec 17 with a visit From Japanese envoys to Sir Mark Young, the british governor of Hong Kong. Japanes quickly took control of key reservoirs, threatening the British and Chinese inhabitants with slow deth by thirst. -
British surrender Hong Kong
One day after Pearl Harbor,the Japanese began their raid on Hong Kong as part of their broad imperial designs on China and South Pacific.Continuing bombing raids severed water mains, and Japanes infantry took controlof remaining reservoirs, as well as the power station, leaving the British with the threat of death by thirst. Despite cries from the governor to "hold fast for King and Empire," no further resistance was possible by the dwindling garrison forces. -
Death at Bataan
On this date Japanese forces defeated a combined US and Filipino army in the Battle of Bataan, in the Philippines. They hen forced more than 70,000 captured soldiers to march more than 60 miles north to capture US army base. The soliders starved as they went on their jobs and i they fell or complained about the brutal weather they were executed. -
Leyte Gulf
In Oct 1944, Japan and the united states started the largest battle of WW II. This battle was also one of the largwst in history. Japan was well prepared for the battle against the US, the assembled the largest fleet its navy would ever put together. They had a code-named Sho-Go or "Operation Victory. " -
United States invades Luzon in Philippines
On this day, Douglas MAcArthur and the American 6th Army land on the Lingayen Gulf of Luzon, another step in the culture of the Pilippine Islands from the Japanese. -
Iwo Jima
On this day , 30,000 Marines began their assault on Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima is a small island in southern Japan.This battle would produce one of the highest casualty rates of WW II. Japan biult three airships on the island and fortifies it heavily. -
The Atomic Bomb
The US forces dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That killed more than 100,000 people and exposing tens of thousands more to deadly radiation. On that same day the Us B-29 plane Enola Gay dropped a 9,700 pound uranium bomb on the Japanese city of HIroshima. That destroyed 90% of the city and killed 70,000 to 80,000 people instantly.
