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English: A map of the Imperial Powers of the Pacific, 1939-09-01. Dates shown indicate the approximate year that the various powers gain control of their possessions. Japanese control of territory in China was tenuous.
English: A map of the Imperial Powers of the Pacific, 1939-09-01. Dates shown indicate the approximate year that the various powers gain control of their possessions. Japanese control of territory in China was tenuous.
Description: Pacific War - The Imperial Powers 1939 *Source: www.dean.usma.edu *Background information: In 1938 the predecessors of what is today The Department of History at the United States Military Academy began developing a series of campaign atlases to aid in teaching cadets a course entitled, "History of the Military Art."
Map of the maritime security zone created by the Declaration of Panama in October 1939, based on straight lines between points about 300 nautical miles offshore.. During the early years of World War II before the United States became a formal belligerent, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a region of the Atlantic, adjacent to the Americas, as the Pan-American Security Zone.
Image:Map of USA.png – United States with outlines for individual states. Image:Map of USA-bw.png – Black and white outlines for states, for the purposes of easy coloring of states. Image:BlankMap-USA-states.PNG – US states, grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps.
Occupied territories/client states in lighter red. Korea, Taiwan, and Karafuto (South Sakhalin) were integral parts of Japan. Maximum extent of the Japanese empire. This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan.
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [36] was the theater of World War II fought between the Empire of Japan and the Allies in East and South East Asia, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Oceania.
The command structures of the Pacific War varied, reflecting the different roles of various belligerent nations, and often involving different geographic scopes. These included the following: American commands: Pacific Ocean Areas; South West Pacific Area; British and Allied commands: GHQ India, commanding the British Army in India; Eastern Fleet