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  from:01/03/1942 till:03/03/1942
  from:07/05/1942 till:08/05/1942 text:6
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  from:23/10/1943 till:27/10/1943 text:10
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  from:22/12/1941 till:14/01/1942 text:4
  from:14/01/1943 till:24/01/1943 text:5
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  from:22/11/1943 till:25/11/1943
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  bar:Solomons        at:23/01/1942 $leftneg1  text:23/1
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  bar:Solomons        at:25/08/1943 $leftneg1  text:25/8 New Georgia taken
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  bar:Carolinas       at:20/04/1944 $leftneg1  text:"20-30/4 Jap. base on Truk destroyed" mark:(line,white)
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  bar:Bismarcks       at:15/12/1943 $leftneg1  text:15/12
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  bar:Gilberts        at:20/11/1944 $leftneg1  text:20-28/11
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  bar:Mariannas       at:10/12/1941 $leftPH    text:10/12 Guam
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  bar:Aleutians       at:11/05/1943 $leftneg1  text:11/5
  bar:Aleutians       at:28/07/1943 $leftneg1  text:28/7
  bar:Thailand        at:08/12/1941 $leftPH    text:8-14/12 Thailand allies with Japan
  bar:Thailand        at:15/07/1944 $leftneg1  text:./7 Pro Japanese govt. ousted
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  bar:Signapore       at:08/12/1941 $leftPH    text:8/12-15/2
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  bar:Burma           at:13/02/1943 $leftneg1  text:13/2-29/4 Chindits
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   text:World War II - Pacific Theatre

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  text:Preliminary events
  fontsize:S
  text:|1933| 27/3|Japan leaves League of Nations
  text:|1940| 25/9|project Ultra - Japanese code cracked
  text:|    | 27/7|Japan claims Greater East Asia
  text:|    |     |                      |Co-Prosperity Sphere
  text:|    | 27/9|Japan signs Tripartite Act with Germ./Italy
  text:|1941| 26/7|US freezes Jap. assets, oil/steel embargo
  text:|    |30/11|Japan makes final decision to attack US

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  text:Sea Battles
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  text:| 1|1942|7/12|Japanese attack Pearl Harbour
  text:| 2||10/12|Japanese carrier aircraft sink
  text:|  |||Prince of Wales and Repulse (Br.)
  text:| 3||19/2|Battle of Lumbok Str
  text:| 4||25/2|Battle of Java Sea
  text:| 5||1/3|Battle of Sunda Str
  text:| 6||7-8/5|Battle of Coral Sea
  text:| 7||4-7/6|Battle of Midway
  text:| 8|42/43|7/8-9/2|Guadalcanal
  text:| 9|1943 |3-5/3|Battle of Bismarck Sea
  text:|10||23-27/10|Battle of Leyte Gulf
  text:|11|1944 | 19-20/6|Battle of Philippine Sea

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  text:Conferences
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  text:| 1| 1940|      27/9|Berlin Ger,It,Jap Tripartite Pact
  text:| 2| 1941|    9-12/8|N-Atlantic VS,GB Atlantic Charter
  text:| 3| 1941| 29/9-1/10|Moscow US,GB,SU  more aid to SU
  text:| 4|41/42|22/12-14/1|Washington US,GB "Europe first" + UN draft
  text:| 5| 1943|   14-24/1|Casablanca US,GB
  text:| 6|     |   17-24/8|Quebec
  text:| 7|     |18/10-1/11|Moscow US,GB,SU
  text:| 8|     |  22-25/11|Cairo US,GB,China
  text:| 9|     |26/11-1/12|Tehran US,GB,SU
  text:|10| 1944|    1-22/7|Bretton Woods 44 nations est. IMF + World Bank
  text:|11| 1945|    4-11/2|Yalta US,GB,SU
  text:|12|     | 25/4-26/6|San Francisco 46 nations UN Charter
  text:|13|     |  17/7-2/8|Potsdam US,GB,SU

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   text:Date format dd/mm
   pos:(10,60)
   text:Author Erik Zachte
   text:Version 1.1 - Jan 02 2004
   text:Plot generated with Ploticus
   text:(ploticus.sourceforge.net)