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on checkerboard basis.
1926. JapS evacuate Mukden.
Hirohito becomes emperor.
1928. Jap troops expel Chang
Kai-Shek'S NatiOnalistS from Man
churia and promulgate idea that
state is Jap protectorate.
1890. Hamaguchi cabinet. formed
1929, gets London naval limitation
treaty ratified over navy opposition
and consents to Chinese tariff auto
nomy.
1881. Army begins conquest Man
churia in defiance of government
1882. Reactionaries aSsassinate
three moderate leaders. Army drives
Chinese out of Shanghai.
1888. Treaty Of Tangku confirms
Jap economic conquest of 100000
square miles of China. . JapS an
nounce withdrawal from League of
Nations because Lytton Commission
condemned aggression to withdraw
Chinese troops from Peiping and
Tientsin areas, Gemilitarize most of
Chahar province. remove anti-Jap
officials and dissolve anti-Jap or
CARNATIONS in northern China.
1886. Border clashes with Rus
slams, begun late 1885, result in
Siberian invasion and pitched bat
tie in Outer Mongolia. Japan
withdraws from London Naval Con-
ference when refused parity with U.
S. and Britain. . Signs pact with
Germany for exchange of military
information and mutual assistance.
1887. Undeclared war between
China and Japan begins Japs take
Peiping, Shanghai, Nanking. Tsinan,
SuchoW. HankoW and Canton until
by late 1888 China is cut off from
British supplies from Hongkong and
Chang Kai-shek moves capital to
Chungking. British ambassador
TO China wounded. U. S gunbOat
Panay sunk League declares
Papan aggreSSOr in China invasion,
and U. S. approves finding.
Japan, Germany and Italy sign anti
Comintern pact. Italy recognizes
ManChukuO Jap dominated Man
churia; Japan recognizes Franco.
1899. Japs blockade British
French concession Tientsin and hu-
initiate BritOns. Great Britain. busy
in Europe, agrees not to Obstruct
Jap military activities gainSt
China. . Japs and Russians con-
clude truce in border warfare.
,
treaty with Japan. laps now dom
, mate 100000 square miles in China
with l0000000O population: ports,
chief cities. railroads.
1910. Set up puppet Wang Ching
Wei in Nanking. Cut off China
from all outside supplies except by
way of Burma Road, getting French
to cut off IndO-Chinese route and
forcing Great Britain to shut down
Burma Road three rainy months.
New cabinet announces tOtalitarian
state dedicated to new order for
Greater East Asia" including dom
ination over French Indo-China and
Netherlands East Indies. Vichv
France permits partial occupation
of Indo-China. Alliance signed
with Berlln-ROme Axis for New Or
, der in Europe and Orient. u. S.
! embargces petroleum, scrap iron and
steel to Japan.
1941. Japan takes over French
Indo-China, with Petains acuuie-
scence, and presses Thailand. which
balks. Builds bases at Saigon and
elsewhere in IndO China, aimed at
British possessions Foreign
| Minister MatSuOka goes to Moscow
Berlin and Rome and concludes
neutrality pact with Soviet.
/ Nov. 27-Japan extends anti
Comintern pact five years.
Dec. 7-Japs attack simultane-
ously Hawaii. Philippines. Wake
/ Guam, Hong Kong, British Malava
3 Thailand.
Dec. S-U. S. and Great Britain
declare war -. Thailand succumbs
at once. Japs take Guam Dec. II
Wake Dec. "a. Hong Kong Dec. 25
Occupy North Borneo Attack Ba
tavia, which Netherlands govern
ment in exile refused to give up.
l@42. The year in which Japa-
nese military prestige and territor-
ial expanse reach their all-timt
high.
Jan. 2-Manila. Cavite naval bast
fall. Jan. 23-Rabaul in New Gui.
nea lost. Jan. 12-Tarakan aban-
doned to Japs.
Feb. II - Singapore Surrenders
Feb. 19-JapS bomb Australia al
Darwin.
Mar.-General Macarthur evac-
uated to Australia promising to re-
turn to Philippines. Japs complete
conquest of Java.
April-Bataan falls.
May-COrregidor Surrenders. Man.
dalay is taken and Gen. Stillwel
begins retreat from Burma.
June-Japs take Kiska. Astu anc
and Agattu in Aleutians and bomi
Dutch Harbor.
July-Japs take Buna and star
for Port Moresby. Meanwhile:
Apr. 6-Marines land on Bougain.
vile in Solomons in first step OF
way back,
May-In Battle Of Coral Sea Jap.
lose 20 Warships and four transport!
sunk or damaged
June-In Battle of Midway Jap
lose 2l warships and five transport,
sunk or damaged and 275 planes.
August-Marines land at Tulag
and Guadalcanal in Solomons.
1943. A year of island -hoppiul
back toward Japan
Jan. 3-Buna recaptured