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Timeline of Events This timeline has all the major events of the Pacific War listed based on chronology. 1931 September 18-Japan Invades Manchuria 1937 July 7-Japan Invades China Proper 1940 September 13-Japan Pushes into French Indochina 1941 Apirl 13-Japan and Russia Sign Non-Aggresstion Pact December 7-Japan attacks Pearl Harbor December 8-United States Declares War on Japan December 9-China Declares War on Japan December 10-Guam Surrenders to Japan December 23-Wake Island Surrenders to Japan December 25-Hong Kong Surrenders to Japan 1942 January 2-Manila Falls to Japan January 11-Japanese Forces Invade Netherlands East Indies Febuary 1-American Carriers Raid Marshalls and Gilberts Febuary 27-Allies Lost the Battle of the Java Sea March 7-Netherlands East Indies Surrenders to Japan April 9-Bataan Surrenders to Japan April 18-American Carrier-based B-25 Mitchells Bomb Tokyo May 4 to 8-Allies Win Battle of the Coral Sea May 6-Corregidor Surrenders to Japan June 4 to 6-Allies Win Battle of Midway August 7-Allies Land on Guadalcanal 1943 March 2-5-Allies Defeat Japanese in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea March 13-Japanese Troops Retreat Across the Yangtze May 30-Attu Surrenders to the Allies October 2-Allies Capture Finschhafen November 1-Americans Land at Bouginville November 20-Americans Land at Tarawa and Makin November 22-Allies Meet in Cairo December 26-Cape Gloucester/New Britain Campaign begins 1944 January 31-American Land at Kwajelien Febuary 17-U.S. Carriers Destroy Truk Febuary 29-Allies Land in the Admirality Islands March 22-Japan Invades India April 22-Allies Invade Hollandia June 15-Americans Land at Saipan June 15-First B-29 Raid on Japan June 19 to 20-Americans Win the Battle of the Philippine Sea July 21-Americans Land at Guam September 15-Americans Land at Peleliu October 20-Americans Land at Leyte October 23 to 26-Americans Crush Japanese Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf 1945 January 9-Allies Invade Luzon January 22-Allies Reopen Land Route to China Febuary 19-U.S. Marines Storm Iwo Jima April 1-Americans Land on Okinawa August 6-Americans Drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima August 9-Americans Drop second Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki August 10-Japan Opens Peace Negotiations August 14-Japan Accepts Allied Surrender Terms September 2-Japan Signs Surrender September 8-Japanese Forces in China Surrender September 12-Japanese Forces in Southeast Asia and Southwest Pacific Surrender Home