By Anne Sharp Wells
World struggle II dominates international background this present day because it ruled international realization over 60 years in the past. inspite of the alliances that certain a number of the related contributors, the warfare used to be primarily separate yet simultaneous conflicts: one concerned Japan because the significant antagonist and happened quite often in Asia and Pacific; and the opposite, initiated via Germany and Italy, used to be contested regularly in Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. The A to Z of global conflict II: The warfare opposed to Japan strains the brutal clash from Japan's seizure of chinese language territory in 1931, throughout the onset of warfare with the Western Allies in 1941, to using atomic guns by means of the USA in 1945. It additionally addresses the aftermath of the conflict together with the formation of the United countries and the yank career of Japan. because the first of 2 volumes overlaying global warfare II, this quantity concentrates at the warfare in Asia and the Pacific so the consumer advantages from the great explanations...
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20 Japanese forces invade Timor (East Indies). Feb. 23 A Japanese submarine fires on an oil refinery in California. Feb. 25 The Allies dissolve ABDACOM. Feb. 27–Mar. 1 Japan defeats the Allies in the naval Battle of the Java Sea (East Indies) and lands invasion forces on eastern Java. Feb. 28–Mar. 1 A Japanese invasion force traveling to western Java battles Allied cruisers in the Battle of the Sunda Strait (East Indies). Feb. 28–Mar. 9 Japan captures Java (East Indies). Mar. 7–8 In New Guinea, Japanese troops land at Salamaua and Lae on the Huon Gulf.
June 22 France surrenders to Germany and establishes a government at Vichy allied with Germany. July 18–Oct. 18 The British close the Burma Road to China in response to Japanese demands. Aug. 20–Nov. 30 Chinese Communist troops carry out the Hundred Regiments Offensive against Japanese forces in northern China. Sept. 23 Japan sends troops into northern French Indochina after pressuring Vichy France for permission. Sept. 26 President Roosevelt prohibits exports of scrap iron and steel except to the United Kingdom.
Sept. 9 Japanese forces surrender to Nationalist forces in China. Sept. 9 Chinese forces occupy northern French Indochina. Sept. 12 British Admiral Louis Mountbatten accepts the Japanese surrender in Singapore. Sept. 13 British and Indian troops move into southern French Indochina. Sept. 16 The Japanese command in Hong Kong transfers power to the British. 1946 May The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes its war crimes trials. July 4 The Republic of the Philippines achieves independence.