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PACIFIC WAR TIME LINE

1854 Matthew C. Perry negotiated the end of japan 2 years isolation

1856-1860 China fights the 2nd opium war

1871 Japan tried and succeeded to invade both Chinese land Okinawa and Ryukyu in its search for power and resources

1895 - Russia,Germany and France stand against the control of Japan over Manchuria

1904-1905 Russo-Japanese war

1941(December 7) Japanese attacked US land bombing both Pearl Harbor and Hawaii in an attempt to intimidate them so they did not join the war, the bombing had the opposite effect

1941(December 8) US and Britain join forces, US becomes officially an ally declaring war against japan

1943 March 2/4 US win over japan in the battle of Sanananda on New Guinea

1945 April 12 president dies , Harry S. Truman enters presidency

-June 26 the first successful test in any atomic bomb occurAmerica

1942 (January 27) The US navy for the first time is able to sank Japanese warship

1942 February 8 Japan invade Singapore

1942 (February 19) The largest air attack since Pearl Harbor occurs in Darwin Australia

1942 (February 15) British army surrender their troops in Singapore

1943 June 1 Us navy start a tactical attack against Japanese shipping

1944 October 25 the first Japanese air suicide mission “kamikaze” happens against Americans warships at Leyte Gulf ( by the end of the war is estimated that japan sent to war 2,257 kamikaze aircrafts.)

1944 December 17 The American air force start all preparations to drop atomic bombs

By María Fernanda Navarro

December 10, 2017

Place: National Museum of The Pacific War.

date of foundation: 1971

Address: 340 East Main Street. Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Website: http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/