| July 7, 1937 | | Lugouqiao Incident | | | August 22, 1937 | | Founding of Eighth Route Army | | | September 25, 1937 | | Battle of Pingxingguan | | | November 12, 1937 | | Shanghai falls | | | March-April 1938 | | Battle of Taierzhuang | | | March 29,1940 | | Puppet government | | | December 7, 1941 | | Attack on Pearl Harbor | | | April-December 1944 | | Japan's largest offensive | | | August 6, 1945 | | Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |