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CHRONOLOGY • xxiii
1934 17 April: Japan enunciates “Asian Monroe” Doctrine.
1936 16 January: Japanese delegates withdraw from Second London
Naval Conference. 26 February: February 26 Incident in Tokyo.
25 November: Japan and Germany conclude the Anti-Comintern Pact.
1937 7 July: Second Sino–Japan War begins with the Marco Polo
Bridge incident near Beijing. August–November: Japanese and Chinese
(Nationalist) forces fight in Shanghai. Shanghai falls to Japanese
control on 8 November. 12 December: Panay Incident. 13 December:
Japanese troops capture Nanjing, capital of Nationalist China. Atrocities
committed by Japanese troops until 1938 February are collectively
known as the “Rape of Nanjing.”
1938 21 October: Japanese troops capture Canton. 3 November:
Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe announces Japan’s policy of “A New
Order in East Asia.”
1939 26 July: U.S. announces its intention to abrogate its treaty of
commerce with Japan. 1 September: Germany invades Poland, beginning
World War II in Europe.
1940 22 September: Japan deploys military forces in northern
French Indochina. 26 September: U.S. embargoes aviation gasoline,
high-grade iron, and scrap metal. 27 September: Japan, Germany, and
Italy conclude the Tripartite Alliance. 5 November: Franklin Delano
Roosevelt is elected to a third term as U.S. president.
1941 12 February: Japanese–American negotiations commence.
11 March: U.S. Congress passes Lend Lease Act. 13 April: Japan and
USSR sign neutrality treaty. 25 July: Japanese troops invade southern Indochina.
26 July: U.S. government freezes Japanese assets in the United
States. 9–12 August: President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill meet for the Atlantic Conference. 18 October: Army General
and War Minister Hideki To- jo- replaces Fumimaro Konoe as prime
minister. 7 December: Japanese military forces attack U.S. Pacific Fleet
at Pearl Harbor and other military installations in Hawaii, plus Midway Island.
8 December: Japanese military forces attack the Philippines, Guam,
Wake Island, Hong Kong, Malaya, and Thailand, and occupy international
settlement of Shanghai. The United States, Britain, and the Netherlands
declare war on Japan. 9 December: China declares war on Japan, Germany,
and Italy.