The Pacific War - week by week
Episodes
- 12 - Pacific War -Fall of Singapore , February 8-15, 1942
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since the start of the Pacific War, we’ve been following one of the major theaters of the Japanese offensive: the Malayan Campaign. Two weeks ago, t...
- 11 - Pacific War -Battle of Makassar strait , February 1-8, 1942
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barely a month ago, the fast progress in the Japanese campaigns across the Pacific had prompted them to start what was one of their most important ope...
- 10 - Pacific War -Fall of Malaya, January 25 - February 1, 1942
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We have been following the Malayan Campaign since the start of the war, seeing the British Empire continually prove that it was hardly prepared to def...
- 9 - Pacific War -Invasion of New Britain & Ireland, January 18-25, 1942
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the Japanese had commenced their most important operation: the capture of the Dutch East Indies and the important resources that it harbour...
- 8 - Pacific War -Dutch East Indies under attack, January 11-18, 1942
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After an entire month of fighting, and with both Malaya and the Philippines thrown against the ropes, the time had finally come for the final step of ...
- 7 - Pacific War -Battle of Slim River January 4-11, 1942
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the Japanese, the war was marching exceedingly well in these first few weeks. Poor preparations on behalf of the Allies had left their Pacific pos...
- 6 - Pacific War -Battle of Kampar December 28 - January 4, 1941-1942
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the previous week, we covered the fall of two of the first places the Japanese had attacked, Hong Kong and Wake Island, and we also watched General...
- 5 - Pacific War - Fall of Wake Island and Hong Kong December 21-28, 1941
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the last two weeks, the war had raged on in the Pacific after the unexpected Japanese attack against British and American possessions in the East....
- 4 - Pacific War - Invasion of Borneo December 14-21, 1941
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On December 7, 1941, the war had reached the Pacific to the surprise of the Allied nations, drastically changing the course of history forever. After ...
- 3 - Pacific War - The Blunder of the Philippines December 10, 1941
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the Rising Sun expanded across East Asia, the United States Pacific Fleet laid broken in the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor. The British colonies h...
- 2 - Pacific War - Invasion of Malaya December 8, 1941
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7 would always be remembered as the day of infamy in which the Japanese started the Pacific War. But at the...
- 1 - Pacific War - Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we’ve seen in the previous episodes, the Japanese Empire had decided on war with the West since the embargo enacted by the US in July, 1941. The ...
- 0.7 - The Pacific War - Tensions in the Pacific
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With war raging both in Europe and in China, prying eyes around the world eagerly followed the events that were unfolding in front of them. In the US ...
- 0.6 - The Pacific War - Hitler‘s war in Europe
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For four long years, Europe had been devastated during the First World War, leaving almost 30 million casualties along with many more dying of famines...
- 0.5 - The Pacific War - The Second Sino Japanese War
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
China is a huge country, full of important resources and extensive farmlands, a huge population, and an important strategic and commercial position. T...
- 0.4 - The Pacific War - US in the Pacific
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So far in this series we’ve been mainly covering the history of the Japanese Empire prior to the start of the Pacific War; but what about the other ...
- 0.3 - The Pacific war - The rise of the Japanese Empire
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By the start of the 20th Century, Japan had turned from a pre-industrialized isolationist state into a modernized regional power, defeating both the C...
- 0.2 - The Pacific War - The Meiji Restoration
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first half of the 19th century, Japan was an agrarian country of tens of millions of rice farmers, a small minority of merchants, who benefited...
- 0.1 - The Pacific War - Imperialism in the East
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Once a land of ancient empires and legendary rulers, Asia saw itself turn into a colony of the expanding European powers in the Early Modern period. D...