Pacific Theater of World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-16

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00:01:56 1 Overview
00:02:05 1.1 Names for the war
00:03:54 1.2 Participants
00:07:47 1.3 Theaters
00:09:13 2 Historical background
00:09:23 2.1 Conflict between China and Japan
00:14:29 2.2 Tensions between Japan and the West
00:16:21 2.3 Japanese preparations
00:20:22 3 Japanese offensives, 1941–42
00:21:15 3.1 Attack on Pearl Harbor
00:23:28 3.2 South-East Asian campaigns of 1941–42
00:28:53 3.3 Threat to Australia
00:31:59 4 Allies re-group, 1942–43
00:33:12 4.1 Japanese strategy and the Doolittle Raid
00:37:00 4.2 Coral Sea
00:40:41 4.3 Midway
00:45:10 4.4 New Guinea and the Solomons
00:46:18 4.4.1 Guadalcanal
00:50:44 4.5 Allied advances in New Guinea and the Solomons
00:51:43 5 Stalemate in China and Southeast Asia
00:51:54 5.1 China 1942–1943
00:54:03 5.2 Burma 1942–1943
00:55:52 6 Allied offensives, 1943–44
00:57:39 6.1 Cairo Conference
00:58:09 6.2 Submarine warfare
01:05:02 7 Japanese counteroffensives in China, 1944
01:06:49 8 Japanese offensive in India, 1944
01:10:02 9 Beginning of the end in the Pacific, 1944
01:12:35 9.1 Marianas
01:14:01 9.2 Philippine Sea
01:17:16 9.3 Leyte Gulf, 1944
01:22:16 9.4 Philippines, 1944–45
01:26:28 10 Final stages
01:26:38 10.1 Iwo Jima, February 1945
01:30:02 10.2 Allied offensives in Burma, 1944–45
01:33:37 10.3 Borneo, 1945
01:35:22 10.4 China, 1945
01:37:21 10.5 Okinawa
01:38:52 10.6 Landings in the Japanese home islands
01:40:54 10.7 Atomic bombs
01:42:29 10.8 Soviet invasion of Manchuria
01:43:50 10.9 Surrender
01:45:41 11 Casualties
01:45:50 11.1 Allied
01:52:58 11.2 Axis
01:54:36 11.3 War crimes
01:58:26 12 See also



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The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China (including the 1945 Soviet–Japanese conflict).
The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been in progress since 7 July 1937, with hostilities dating back as far as 19 September 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself began on 7/8 December 1941, when Japan invaded Thailand and attacked the British colonies of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong as well as the United States military and naval bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines.The Pacific War saw the Allies pitted against Japan, the latter aided by Thailand and to a lesser extent by the Axis allied Germany and Italy. The war culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other large aerial bomb attacks by the Allies, accompanied by the Soviet declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria on 9 August 1945, resulting in the Japanese announcement of intent to surrender on 15 August 1945. The formal surrender of Japan ceremony took place aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. After the war, Japan lost all rights and titles to its former possessions in Asia and the Pacific, and its sovereignty was limited to the four main home islands. Japan's Shinto Emperor relinquished much of his authority and his divine status through the Shinto Directive in order to pave the way for extensive cultural and political reforms.