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Japan colonizes Korea which gave Japan imperial power.

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Japanese soldiers planed to take over Manchuria so the dressed up as Chinese soldiers. Then they took over Manchuria in a series of military advances.

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Manchuria became a Japanese state and was now called Manchukuo. Worldwide people were protesting against the Japanese for this.

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Japan has expanded to inner Mongolia and around Beijing. Also the militants connected to the government and the armed forces gained control of Japanese politics.

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China and Japan clashed, the Japaneses killed so many people that it was called the "Rape of Nanjing". And the Chinese government refused to surrender so the moved up river.

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Japan wanted resources from French Indochina, but the US said no, and japan needed these resources but couldn't risk not getting supplies from the US. SO after a long debate Japan decided to launch a surprise attack on the US

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General Hideki Tojo, prime minister opposed female employment

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Japan saw an opportunity to attack other countries and their colonies since everyone else was worried about Hitler. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, part of the Philippines, and Malaya.

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US joined WWII with the Grand Alliance and declared war.

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Almost all of Southeast Asia and much of the western Pacific had fallen to the Japanese.

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American naval forces stop Japanese advance and saved Australia from being invaded.

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The Battle of Midway Island was the turning point in the war when the US defeated Japanese navy and established superiority in the Pacific.

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Allied forces in Asia began two operations, one to move into Philippians through New Guinea and the South Pacific Islands. The other, would move across the Pacific and to attack on Japanese held islands.

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Japanese fortunes in the war began to fade.

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Allies agree to fight until Axis powers surrender unconditionally.

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The new US B-29 Superfortresses, the biggest bombers of the war started to attack Japanese cities.

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Many of Japan's industries had been destroyed, along with 1/4 of its dwellings. So men from 13-60 had to volunteer for war.

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An atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by the US and the result was deaths of thousands of Japanese civilians.

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The US captured the islands os Iwo Jima and Okinawa and bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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After the devastation of two atomic bombs, the Japanese Emperor accepted the unconditional surrender.