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Japanese invade Pearl Harbour
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U.S declares war on Japan
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Japanese invade Philippines
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Hong Kong surrenders
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British forced to surrender in Singapore
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U.S troops on Bataan forced to surrender
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Doolittle bombing raid on Japan
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Japan seizes Attu & Kiska in Aleutians
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Buna captured
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'Island Hopping' in Solomon Islands begins
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Lae falls
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Boughanville invaded
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New Britain invaded
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Admiralty Islands invaded
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Amphibious assault at Hollandia
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Hideki Tojo resigns
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Invasions of Morotai and Palau Islands
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Douglas MacArthur lands in Philippines
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Allies land on Luzon
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Roosevelt dies, Truman becomes president
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Invasion of Mindanao
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Okinawa captured
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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Japan agrees to surrender
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Japan surrenders aboard U.S.S. Missouri
