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Japan invades Manchuria
Jaoanesse controlled the Manchurian railway -
The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria
poured more than 1 million soviet soldiers into Japanese occupied Manchuria -
Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific
Japan deployed 350,000 troops -
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
Axis powers are formed -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Japan fighter planes attacked the american naval base -
The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II
the united states officially entered the second world war -
MacArthur ordered out of the Philippine
the american ddefense of the islands collaspes -
British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway
the U.S. Navy turned the tables onits powerful -
US troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands
japan unable to halt the island by island advance -
Firebombing raids of Tokyo and other Japanese cities begin
the start of the major campaign -
Allied troops conquer Okinawa, the last island stop before the Japanese islands
the allies were approaching japan -
Manhattan Project launches
The atomic heritage foundation -
USS Indianapolis sunk
toredoed by a japenese submarine -
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to japan would result in horrific casualities -
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima -
Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II
japan formally surrenders to the allies -
Trinity test- Atomic Bomb
scientists used this as a laboratory for testing bomb compontents