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Hace 2 días · The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg,: 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
Hace 2 días · Japan - Post-WWII, Economy, Culture: From 1945 to 1952 Japan was under Allied military occupation, headed by the Supreme Commander for Allied Powers (SCAP), a position held by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur until 1951. Although nominally directed by a multinational Far Eastern Commission in Washington, D.C., and an Allied Council in Tokyo—which included the United States, the Soviet Union ...
Hace 6 días · The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) was one of the most destructive conflicts of World War II. It began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 7, 1937, and ended with Japan's surrender on September 2, 1945. This war marked the culmination of growing Japanese aggression toward China since an earlier Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895).
Hace 3 días · USS Lexington explodes during the Battle of the Coral Sea. A formation of Spitfires shortly before World War II.. This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period.
Hace 1 día · By 1945, sinkings of Japanese vessels had decreased because there were less ships available to target. In all, Allied submarines destroyed 1,200 merchant ships – about five million tons of shipping. At critical stages of the Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Leyte campaigns, thousands of Japanese troops were killed or diverted from where they were needed.
Hace 5 días · American literature - Postwar, Diversity, Innovation: The literary historian Malcolm Cowley described the years between the two world wars as a “second flowering” of American writing. Certainly American literature attained a new maturity and a rich diversity in the 1920s and ’30s, and significant works by several major figures from those decades were published after 1945.
Hace 4 días · In August 1945 the Soviet Union joined in the war against Japan. Soviet forces overran Manchuria and installed a communist regime in North Korea. Soviet territorial gains consisted of the southern half of the island of Sakhalin, plus Port Arthur (now Lü-shun), both of which had been lost to Japan in 1905.
