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8 Οκτ 2024 · Pacific War, major theater of World War II that covered a large portion of the Pacific Ocean, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, with engagements occurring as far south as northern Australia and as far north as the Aleutian Islands. Trace the course of the war from Pearl Harbor to the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
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Pacific Islands home front during World War II. Clockwise from upper left: Suva (c. 1940), ethnic groups of the Pacific Ocean, Papuans at the Port Moresby harbourside (1946), American parade through Auckland.
Historical Map of East Asia and the Western Pacific (23 January 1942 - Japanese Onslaught in the Pacific: Following Pearl Harbor, the Japanese quickly overran Allied possessions in China, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific as they moved to seize resources and secure a strategic island perimeter.
Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath. On the morning of 8 December 1941 (still 7 December in Hawaii), Japan launched simultaneous attacks against American and British forces across the Pacific, bombing the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor and invading Malaya, Thailand, Guam, the Philippines and the Chinese concessions.
As MacArthur’s troops leapt from island to island in the southwest Pacific, a central Pacific campaign began with the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943. By the end of the year, a two-pronged assault on Japan was well underway.
Japanese invasion of French Indochina. While Nomonhan and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact seemed to put an end to ideas of Japanese expansion north, the outbreak of World War II and the rapid German victories over France and the Netherlands left the European colonies in southeast Asia vulnerable.
