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Pearl Harbor
Who: Japanese pilots and Navy and America's pilots, sailors, and civilians.
What: The surprise attack of Pearl Harbor, attacked by 350 Japanese planes, killed 3,000 soldiers.
When: December 7th,1941. 8am on a Sunday morning.
Where: Ford Island US naval and air installation base, Oahu,Hawaii.
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Japanese invasion of Thailand
The Japanese military planned to invade Malaya and Burma. In order to do this, they needed to make use of Thai ports, railways, and airfields.
The situation at that time, Phibun (Prime Minister) could have decided he had little choice, as his own forces would have been unable to defeat the Japanese by themselves. -
Free Thai Movement
The Free Thai Movement was a Thai underground resistance movement against Imperial Japan during World War II. Seri Thai were an important source of military intelligence for the Allies in the region.
Seni Pramoj, the Thai ambassador in Washington, refused to deliver the declaration to the United States government. He established and recruiting Thai students in the United States to work with the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS). -
Japanese internment
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Coral Sea
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White Rose
Who: a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich.
What: a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany.
Where: Germany
When: June 27th, 1942
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River Kwai bridge
Built by the Empire of Japan in 1943 to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II.
Between 180,000 and 250,000 Southeast Asian civilian labourers (rōmusha) and about 61,000 Allied prisoners of war were subjected to forced labour during its construction. About 90,000 civilian labourers and more than 12,000 Allied prisoners died. -
Invasion of Italy
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Korematsu vs US
Who: Fred Korematsu and United States
What: Japanese-American, who lived in an internment camp, who challenged the legality of FDR's executive order 9066
When: December 11th, 1944
Where: Supreme Court of United States
Why: Japanese-American, who lived in an internment camp, who challenged the legality of FDR's executive order 9066 -
Hiroshima
Who: Fraklin D Roosevelt vs Hirohito
What: Little boy, a gun-type bomb
Where: Hiroshima, Japan
When: August 6, 1945
Why: Pearl harbor and the pacific war -
Nagasaki
Who: Franklin D Roosevelt vs Hirohito
What: Fat man, implosion-type weapon using plotonium
Where: Nagasaki, Japan
When: August 9, 1945
Why: Pearl harbor and the pacific war -
Marshall plan
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Berlin airlift
