American Experience . MacArthur . Timeline 1941


July	American government freezes all Japanese assets in U.S.
December	Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
	U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan; China declares war on Japan later in December.
	War in the Philippines begins with Japanese air attacks; much of the American bomber force is destroyed on the ground at Clark Field.
	Japan invades Malaya (today known as Malaysia); Japanese aircraft sink a British battleship and a battle cruiser off the coast of Malaya.
	Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central Pacific.
	Japan invades Hong Kong; British forces surrender.
	In the Philippines: Japanese forces take Manila; American and Filipino troops withdraw to Bataan peninsula.
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