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xxiv • CHRONOLOGY
1942 19 February: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066
authorizing removal of Japanese Americans from West Coast of the
United States. 11 March: General Douglas MacArthur departs from the
Philippines to set up a new command center in Australia. 9 April: American
and Philippine forces surrender to Japanese troops. 9–16 April:
American and Philippine POWs forced to walk 50 miles in what became
known as the “Bataan Death March.” 18 April: Doolittle Raid. 4–8 May:
Battle of Coral Sea. 3 June: Japanese military forces attack Aleutian Islands.
3–6 June: Battle of Midway.
1943 9 February: U.S. Marines and Navy capture Guadalcanal.
18 April: U.S. planes ambush and kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
over the Solomon Islands. May: U.S. forces recapture the
Aleutian Islands. 22 November: Cairo Conference convenes. 28 November:
Teheran Conference convenes.
1944 9 July: U.S. forces capture Saipan. 18 July: General Hideki To- jo- resigns as prime minister, and is succeeded by General Kuniaki Koiso.
10 August: U.S. forces recapture Guam. 23–26 October: Battle of Leyte
Gulf. November: Allied forces recapture Peleliu. B-29 bombers based in
the Mariana Islands (Saipan, Tinian, Guam) begin attacking Japan.
1945 4–11 February: Yalta Conference. 4 March: Allied forces retake
Manila. 9–10 March: Massive U.S. incendiary bombing of Tokyo.
26 March: Allied forces capture Iwo Jima. 1 April–2 July: Battle of
Okinawa. 5 April: Admiral Kantaro Suzuki succeeds General Kuniaki
Koiso as prime minister. 12 April: President Roosevelt dies and is succeeded
by Harry S. Truman. 7 May: Germany surrenders to Allied forces.
16 July: U.S. explodes the world’s first atomic bomb in a test near Alamogordo,
New Mexico. 16 July–2 August: Potsdam Conference. 26 July:
Potsdam Declaration issued by U.S., Britain, and China. The Soviet Union
officially joins the Potsdam Declaration on 8 August 1945. 28 July: Prime
Minister Kantaro Suzuki rejects Potsdam Declaration. 6 August: Atomic
bomb attack on Hiroshima. 8 August: Soviet Union declares war against
Japan; Soviet troops begin invasion of Japan-controlled Manchuria just after
midnight on 8–9 August. 9 August: Atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki.
14 August: Japanese government notifies the Allied Powers that it surrenders.
President Truman appoints General Douglas MacArthur as
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP). 15 August: Radio