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Timeline for World War II — Japan. Pre-1920: 1853: American Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Tokyo harbor and forced the Japanese to allow trade with U.S. merchants with threat of military action. 1858: Western nations forced Japan to sign the Unequal Treaties.
The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and British Singapore.
World War II in Photographs 10 © The National WWII Museum Japan invades Manchuria, a region of northern China that offers the Japanese much needed natural resources. The lack of forceful reaction from the rest of the world emboldens Japan over the next decade. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, becomes chancellor of Germany
In January of 1938, Japanese soldiers conducted an orgy of looting, arson, rape, torture, and murder, in which between 42,000 and 400,000 people were killed, and many, many more were maimed or otherwise wounded.
3 Φεβ 2014 · The document provides a detailed timeline of major events from 1931 to 1945 during World War II. It outlines the expansion of fascist regimes like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan through military aggression and annexation of neighboring states.
Wartime textbooks were filled with references to “Japan,” its ruling family, and the country’s divine origins. They introduced the paraphernalia of war—helmets, canteens, tanks, and aircraft—and described servicemen as conquerors and occupiers who were willing to die for their monarch and country.
As World War II progressed in the Pacific, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) confronted the prospect that getting an unconditional surrender from Japan might require invading the Japanese homeland.
