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3 SHARED EVENTSUnited States

Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · JPN LEFT · USA RIGHT

1. 1941 CE

   Attack on Pearl Harbor

   Japan attacks the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II and opening the Pacific War.

   War & Rupture · from the Japan chronicle · Meiji and Empire: Revolution from Above · REFS 1 — Pacific War

2. 7 December 1941

   Attack on Pearl Harbor

   Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii brought the United States into the Second World War.

   War & Rupture · from the United States chronicle · Reconstruction, industrial rise, and the World Wars · REFS 1 — Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)

3. 1945 CE

   Atomic bombings and surrender

   The United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9; Japan announces surrender, formalized on September 2, ending World War II.

   War & Rupture · from the Japan chronicle · Meiji and Empire: Revolution from Above · REFS 2 — Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pacific War