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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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- G8A 1975 summit hosted by France brought together representatives of six governments: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…