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Japan attempts to take over Southeast Asia
Over a span of around 20 years, Japan had been trying to take over land all throughout southeast asia in an attempt to rule over that side of the world. This concerned the US who then set up naval fleets to try and stop Japans advancement -
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WWII Pacific Theater
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US places oil embargo to stop Japan
Japans advance over southeast asia frightened the US so they took action to stop Japan -
Pearl Harbor Attack
Japan saw America's action as an act of war. They wanted more land and resources but America's naval fleet at Pearl Harbor was blocking their path. So Japan bombed Pearl Harbor with attack planes in order to get America out of their way -
Japan attacks US mainland
This was Japans first major attack on the US in their mainland. A Japanese submarine shelled an oil refinery on the coast of California -
Japan executes POW's
Japan had been keeping American POW's in prisons on wake island, and on this day they executed over 100 of them -
1,000 bomber raids against Japan
The US launched a series of 1,000 bomber raids against Japan to put a major damper on their forces -
Bombing of Hiroshima
On this day, the US made their first major endgame move on Japan by dropping an atomic bomb on the heavily populated city of Hiroshima -
Japan Surrenders
After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan no longer wants to continue fighting so they surrender to the US an Britain -
United Nations is born
In an effort to prevent the evnets of WWII from ever happening again, the United Nations is born from the rubble of the pacific theater -
Tribunal for Japanese war criminals
There were several war crimes commited by Japan during the Pacific Theater. This day marked the start of the criminals being put on trial for what they did
