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Japan–United States relations
- Surrender of JapanAt 8:15 in the morning on the 6th of August 1945, a single aircraft released a single bomb over Hiroshima. Sixteen hours later, President Harry S. Truman went on the air to promise Japan "a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has…
- Washington Naval TreatyOn the 6th of February 1922, five of the world's most powerful nations put their signatures to a document that would reshape naval warfare for two decades. The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, bound the British…
- Export Control ActThe Export Control Act of 1940 began not as a law passed by Congress but as a presidential proclamation. Franklin D. Roosevelt issued it to block the sale of aircraft parts, chemicals, and minerals to foreign buyers without a government…
- USS Panay incidentThe USS Panay incident began on the 12th of December 1937, when Japanese warplanes attacked an American gunboat anchored on the Yangtze River near Nanjing. Japan and the United States were not at war at the time. By that afternoon, the…
- Victory over Japan DayVictory over Japan Day marks the moment the deadliest conflict in human history finally stopped. On the 15th of August 1945, Emperor Hirohito's voice came across the radio in Japan, announcing that his country would accept the terms of the…
- G7The G7, the Group of Seven, began not in a grand hall of international diplomacy but in a library. On the 25th of March 1973, George Shultz, the United States secretary of the treasury, gathered three finance ministers from West Germany,…
- International Space StationThe International Space Station travels at 7.67 kilometres every second, circling the Earth roughly every 93 minutes at about 400 kilometres up. It hangs below the Van Allen radiation belts and most space debris, tracing a path between…
- Treaty of San FranciscoOn the 8th of September 1951, inside the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, representatives of 49 nations gathered to sign a document that would formally close the most destructive war in human history. The Treaty of San Francisco…
- Japanese naval codesJapanese naval codes haunted the Pacific War from its first days to its last. Every cryptosystem the Imperial Japanese Navy deployed was eventually broken, and the consequences of those breaks shaped the outcome of the entire conflict. The…
- Japan–United States relationsJapan-United States relations began with a show of force. In 1852, Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed out of Norfolk, Virginia, commanding a squadron of black-hulled steam frigates and warships on a mission to pry open one of the most…