pacific time line

By Masonpelle

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria

  • Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact

  • japan bombs pearl harbor

  • The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II

  • MacArthur ordered out of the Philippines

  • British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway

  • US troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands

  • Firebombing raids of Tokyo and other Japanese cities begin

  • Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands

  • manhattan projects launches

  • uss indianapolis sunk

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki

  • Japan formally surrenders, ending World War I

  • Trinity test- Atomic Bomb