Pearl harbor

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    Pearl harbor

  • Battle of Lugou Bridge, often referred to as the Marco Polo Bridge it is not know what really happened except for that there where losses on both sides andd it sparked negtions between China and Japan

  • After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937) resulted in negotialtions between the Kuomintang and the Communists and a Second Truce. The alliance never really took hold. There was to much distrust between the two.

  • Japanese control the east-west region from Beijing to Tianjin

  • After taking Nanjing in December (which forced Chiang to move his government to the remote Sichuan city of Chongqing), the Japanese For two months, the soldiers raped an estimated 7000 women and killed 100,000 civilians

  • The Japanese after the incident of the Marco Polo Bridge quickly seized Tianjin and then drove for the key port of Sghanghai

  • The Chinese battled heroically at Shanghai (a quarter-million soldiers were lost) before they fell to their invaders in October.

  • Japan occupies the chinese island of Hainan

  • Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto appointed commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy

  • The US fleet transfers to Pearl Harbor as its permanent home base: to the Japanese, this is a thinly veiled threat and Japan decieds that they should take war to the U.S. navy

  • Roosevelt has an embargo placed on all aviation fuel, steel and scrap iron to Japan

  • Lieutenant-Colonel. Friedman, a cryptographer, breaks the Japanese Purple Code

  • Roosevelt gives Britain 50 old destroyers for the rights to establish US naval bases in British territories

  • In Japan, American ambassador Grew writes in his diary: ʺJapan . . . is on the warpath . . . If . . . Americans . . . could read . . . articles by leading Japanese . . . they . . . would realize the utter hopelessness of a policy of appeasement

  • Yamamoto writes a letter to R/Adm. Takijiru Oikawa, saying: ʺA conflict with the United States . . . is inevitable.ʺ The Japanese navy should ʺdestroy the US main fleet at the outset of the war

  • In secret talks with Britain, the US decides that if Japan enters the war on the German side, and if the US enters the war, Germany is to be defeated first, then Japan.

  • Onishi gives Yamamoto a draft of his plan for attack, based on Genda's plan but with some modifications

  • Congress passes the Lend Lease Act, which supplies materiel to governments fighting the Axis

  • Roosevelt orders the Coast Guard to seize two German, 28 Italian and 35 Danish ships in US ports.

  • Naval Intelligence in Washington alerts district commanders to the fact that ʺthe Axis Powers often attack on Saturday and Sunday or on national holidaysʺ

  • Japan and Russia sign a neutrality pact giving Japan the green light for southward expansion and this increase japanese aggresion

  • Roosevelt declares the US to be in an unlimited state of national emergency the US freezes German and Italian assets.

  • The US puts an embargo on oil sales, freezes assets, and closes ports to Japanese vessels.

  • Yamamoto issues Top Secret Order No.1 to the Combined Fleet, detailing the plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Congress repeals sections of the Neutrality Act concerning arming US cargo ships and transporting war goods to warring nations

  • A large Japanese fleet under Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo (Nagumo, Chuichi) leaves the Kurile Islands for Hawaii, maintaining radio silence and taking a northerly route to avoid detection. It has orders to attack the United States Pacific Fleet, in Pearl H

  • Nagumo gets the go-ahead In the afternoon, Hawaiian time, the Japanese strike force stops at 43 degrees North, 170 degrees East to refuel one last time before the attack

  • The japanese attack the U.S. Pacfic fleet in pearl harbor killing over 2,000 americans but not damaging the aircraft carriers which luckly had been out at sea