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Jan 22, 2018 · November 25, 1936: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement. July 7, 1937: Japan invaded China, initiating World War II in the Pacific. March 11–13, 1938: Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss. September 30, 1938:
Early in World War II the Allies committed to the principles of the Atlantic Charter as a definition of their war aims. These principles included national self determination, territorial changes only with the consent of those affected, freedom from want and fear, freedom of the seas, the reduction of trade barriers, global economic and social cooperation, and disarmament.
Kamishibai is a performance art that was popular in Japan from the late 1920s to the 1960s and today lives on in nostalgia venues such as the International Manga Museum in Kyoto and the Shitamachi Museum in Tokyo. Most simply, a kamishibai play is a set of pictures used by a performer to tell a story to an audience, usually of children aged ...
The attack on Pearl Harbor ranks as the most successful military surprise attack in the early years of combined naval/aerial combat. On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service struck the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The attack directly led to the United States’ entrance into World War Two.
Jul 14, 2020 · Within the scope of a few decades, Japan modernized and became the most powerful country in East Asia, with that result cemented in blood by the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. Thereafter, Japan decided to emulate the Western Powers that colonized or subdued most of the non-Western world in the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Feb 13, 2023 · September 1. Germany invades Poland and annexed Danzig, violating the Munich Pact. Britain and France give Hitler an ultimatum, which Hitler ignores. September 3. Britain and France declare war on Germany. September 3. Britain and France declare war on Germany. September 1939 to September 1945. The battle between Allied forces and Japanese ...
Nov 29, 2012 · Dec. 8, 1941: Japanese bomb the Philippines, destroying many aircraft at Clark Field. Dec. 22, 1941: About 43,000 Japanese troops begin the main invasion of Luzon; American and Filipino troops ...
