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Military history of the Pacific Ocean

  • Francis Drake's circumnavigationIn 1567, a fleet led by the English privateer Sir John Hawkins conducted a slave trading voyage across the Atlantic to sell enslaved Africans in Spanish and…
  • United States Pacific FleetA Pacific Fleet was created in 1907 when the Asiatic Squadron and the Pacific Squadron were combined. This new force operated under a unified command…
  • Japanese invasion of ManchuriaBy the end of the 1920s, 39.4 percent of all colonial financial investments went into Manchuria. This massive economic stake created a fragile dependency for…
  • Soviet–Japanese WarAt the Tehran Conference in November 1943, Joseph Stalin agreed that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan once Germany was defeated.
  • Imperial Japanese NavyIn 1576, the daimyō Oda Nobunaga commissioned six iron-covered warships known as Oatakebune. These vessels represented one of the earliest attempts at…
  • Pacific WarIn 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria without declaring war. This action sought raw materials to fuel its growing industrial economy.