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Japan Invades Manchuria
Japan invades Manchuria to gain the production and land that they have as a solution for their overgrowing population and needed materials. -
Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory destroying and killing several. -
Battle of Bataan "Death March"
Filipino and American troops were forced to a 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese guards. Thousands perished. -
Bombing of Tokyo
Often referred to as a series of firebombing raids, was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. -
Battle of Coral Sea
A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
The United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Korematsu vs. United States
A landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. -
Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
America invaded Iwo Jima and three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Allied victory. -
Hiroshima
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the last stages of World War II. -
Nagasaki
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the last stages of World War II.
