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| 1939 May 11 |
| | | An incident on the border between Japanese Manchukuo and Soviet territory sparks a four-month war with the USSR that brings heavy Japanese losses | |
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| 1940 September 27 |
| | | Germany, Italy and Japan form a Tripartite Pact as a military alliance | |
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| 1941 |
| | | Aung San and some revolutionary colleagues (the Thirty Comrades) receive military training in Japan, aiming to evict the British from Burma | |
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| 1941 |
| | | The US Congress declares war on Japan and President Roosevelt endorses the order | |
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| 1941 October 16 |
| | | Japanese emperor Hirohito appoints Tojo Hideki as the country's prime minister | |
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| 1941 December 8 |
| | | Within hours of Pearl Harbor, Japanese aircraft attack the Philippines and destroy half the available US planes | |
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| 1941 December 25 |
| | | Hong Kong surrenders to an invading Japanese force | |
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| 1941 December 28 |
| | | Burmese politician Aung San raises a Burma Independence Army in Thailand to support the imminent Japanese invasion of his country | |
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| 1942 March 8 |
| | | The Japanese invasion of Papua signals the start of the three-year New Guinea campaign | |
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| 1942 April 18 |
| | | US planes, flying from an aircraft carrier, undertake a difficult bombing raid on Tokyo | |
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