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Conferences
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text:Preliminary events
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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:| 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:| 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:Author Erik Zachte
text:Version 1.1 - Jan 02 2004
text:Plot generated with Ploticus
text:(ploticus.sourceforge.net)
