Pacific War

:The Pacific War (1937–1945) is not to be confused with the War of the Pacific (1879–1884). In Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 fictional universe, the Pacific War refers to a 1932-34 naval conflict between Japan and the USA.

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War of the Pacific (1879–1884) - Harry Turtledove - Timeline-191 - Japan - USA

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The Pacific War, which is known in Japan as the Greater East Asia War, occurred in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in Asia. The conflict took place between 1937 and 1945. However, the most decisive actions took place on December 7-8, 1941, when Japan attacked the United States, Thailand, the Philippines and British territories.

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Japan - Greater East Asia War - Pacific Ocean - 1937 - 1945 - December 7 - 1941 - United States - Thailand - Philippines - British

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The war both preceded World War II and also included some of its major campaigns and events. It was fought between Japan on one side and the Allied powers, including China, the United States, the United Kingdom (including British-controlled India), Australia, the Philippines, the Netherlands and New Zealand on the other. The Soviet Union repulsed its Japanese attackers in 1939, then remained neutral until 1945, when it played an important role on the Allied side in the closing weeks of the war.

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World War II - China - British-controlled India - Australia - The Netherlands - New Zealand - Soviet Union

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Thailand was later coerced into joining the Japanese side. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were also allies of Japan, and some of their naval forces operated in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean between 1940 and 1945.

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Thailand - Nazi Germany - Italy

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Between 1942 and 1945, there were four main Allied theaters/commands in the war against Japan: China, the Pacific Ocean Areas, the South East Asia Command and the South West Pacific Area. US sources often refer to two major theaters within the Pacific War: the Pacific Theater and the South-East Asian Theater. However, for most of the war, the US military divided operational control of its forces between the commanders of the Pacific Ocean Areas, the South West Pacific Area, and the China Burma India Theater (CBI). (US forces in the CBI were technically under the operational command of either the Allied South East Asia Command or that of China's generalissimo, Chiang Kai Shek.) US strategic bomber forces in the Pacific reported directly to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. For brief periods in both 1939 and 1945, there was another theater: Mongolia and north-east China, where Soviet forces also engaged Japan.

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Pacific Ocean Areas - South East Asia Command - South West Pacific Area - Pacific Theater - South-East Asian Theater - China Burma India Theater - Generalissimo - Chiang Kai Shek - US strategic bomber - Joint Chiefs of Staff - Mongolia - Soviet

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