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World War II Asia-Pacific. Use the following links to view maps: WWII Major Operations of the Asian and Pacific Theater. Pacific and the Far East. The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939. China, 1941. Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks. Major Allied Forces and Positions, December 1941.
- Japan Invades China
- Increased Japan-China Hostilities
- 1939 to 1940: Turning of The Tide
- Axis vs. Allies
- More Allies and More Enemies
- A Shift in The Allies' Favor
- Allied Domination
- Late 1944 to 1945: The Nuclear Option and Japan's Surrender
On July 7, 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese Warbegan with a conflict known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Japan was attacked by Chinese troops while carrying out military training—they didn't warn the Chinese they would be shooting gunpowder rounds at the bridge that led to Beijing. This amplified already tense relations in the region, leading to...
The Japanese Imperial Army had begun to take on its own doctrine by this point, ignoring orders from Tokyo to halt southward expansion in the winter and spring of 1938. On February 18 of that year, they launched the Bombing of Chongqing, a years-long firebombing against the Chinese provisional capital that killed 10,000 civilians. Fought from March...
China celebrated its first victory on October 8, 1939. At the First Battle of Changsha, Japan attacked the capital of the Hunan Province, but the Chinese army cut Japanese supply lines and defeated the Imperial Army. Still, Japan captured the Nanning and Guangxi coast and stopped foreign aid by sea to China after winning the Battle of South Guangxi...
As early as April 1941, volunteer American pilots called the Flying Tigers begin to fly supplies to Chinese forces from Burma over "the Hump"—the eastern end of the Himalayas. In June of that year, troops from Great Britain, India, Australia, and France invaded Syria and Lebanon, held by pro-German Vichy French. The Vichy French surrendered on July...
By the end of February 1942, Japan had continued its assault on Asia, invading the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), capturing Kuala Lumpur (Malaya), the islands of Java and Bali, and British Singapore. It also attacked Burma, Sumatra, and Darwin (Australia), which began Australia's involvement in the war. In March and April, the Japanese pushed into ...
From December 1942 to February 1943, the Axis powers and the Allies played a constant tug-of-war, but supplies and munitions were running low for Japan's already thinly spread troops. The United Kingdom capitalized on this weakness and launched a counter-offensive against the Japanese in Burma. In May 1943, China's National Revolutionary Army made ...
Continuing on its success along the Yangtze River, China launched another major offensive in northern Burma in January 1944 in an attempt to reclaim its supply line along the Ledo Road into China. The next month, Japan launched the Second Arakan Offensive in Burma, attempting to drive the Chinese forces back—but it failed. The United States took Tr...
After suffering many losses, Japan refused to surrender to Allied parties—and thus the bombings started to intensify. With the advent of the nuclear bomb looming overhead and tensions continuing to mount between the rival armies of the Axis powers and the Allied forces, the Second World War came to its climax. Japan upped its aerial forces in Octob...
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The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.
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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.
20 de jun. de 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.
11 de jun. de 2024 · Controllable map of World War II in Europe (end of august 1939 to end of december 1942)
