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About 8.5 million Japanese civilians were displaced from their homes between 1943 and 1945 as a result of air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during the Pacific War. These evacuations started in December 1943 as a voluntary government program to prepare the country's main cities for bombing raids by evacuating ...
The evacuation of Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima (Kuril) islands refers to the events that took place during the Pacific theater of World War II as the Japanese population left these areas, to August 1945 in the northwest of the main islands of Japan. The evacuation started under the threat of Soviet invasion.
Evacuation for Odessa during the Siege of Odessa; Evacuation from Crimea during the Crimea Campaign; Evacuations during the Siege of Leningrad; Operation Ke, Japanese evacuation from Guadalcanal, Jan-Feb 1943; Japanese evacuation from Kiska, July 1943; Allied invasion of Sicily, Axis evacuation order to the Royal Italian Army over the Strait of ...
The Japanese military before and during World War II committed numerous atrocities against civilian and military personnel. Its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prior to a declaration of war and without warning killed 2,403 neutral military personnel and civilians and wounded 1,247 others.
Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 which marked the beginning of World War II, the campaign of ethnic "cleansing" became the goal of military operations for the first time since the end of World War I. After the end of the war, between 13.5 and 16.5 million German-speakers lost their homes in formerly German lands and all over ...
Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II; Chronology of the liberation of Belgian cities and towns during World War II; Timeline of the Manhattan Project (1939–1947) Timeline of air operations ...
List of Japanese operations during World War II Operation Year Description Operation FU: 1940: invasion of French Indo-China Operation AI: 1941: attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States Operation DE: 1941: invasion of Dutch East Indies Operation T: 1941: invasion of Thailand Operation E: 1941: invasion of China and Northeast British Malaya ...
Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.The planned operation was canceled when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet declaration of war, and the invasion of Manchuria. [1]