| 1933 |
League
of Nations votes to censure Japan for invasion of Manchuria; Japan
announces intention to withdraw from the League |
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1935 |
Japan withdraws from the League of Nations |
| 1937,
July 3 |
Aviator
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear while flying over
Pacific |
| 1941,
August 14 |
U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill issue Atlantic Charter, stating that the national
policy of the United States and the United Kingdom is to not seek
territorial aggrandizement or territorial changes not in accord
with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned |
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1941, December 8-10 |
Japanese armed forces, based on Saipan and Rota in the Northern
Mariana Islands, attack and occupy Guam; Japan places Mariana
Islands under martial law
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| 1942 |
Japan
transfers administration of Micronesia from the Ministry of Colonial
Affairs to the Ministry of Greater East Asian Affairs |
| 1943,
November 5 |
Japan
reorganizes the South Seas Government, reducing the six
administrative districts to three: the Marianas, Chuuk, and Palau;
Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya, former commander in chief of the China
fleet, is appointed Governor General. |
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1944, June-July |
United States armed forces attack and occupy Saipan and Tinian,
recapture Guam |
| 1944,
June 19 |
United
States Military Government in the Northern Mariana Islands is established by Proclamation No. 1;
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz becomes Military Governor of the
Mariana Islands |
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1944, July 10 |
United States armed forces declare Saipan secure
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| 1944,
August 1 |
United States armed forces declare Tinian secure
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| 1944,
November - 1945, August |
Bombing
raids on Japan by B-29s based on Saipan, Tinian, and Guam |
| 1945,
February 4-11 |
At
Yalta, U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Soviet Marshall Josef Stalin agree that
former League of Nations mandates should become international
trusteeships under the United Nations |
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1945, April 25 |
U.S. President Roosevelt dies; Vice
President Harry S. Truman sworn in as U.S. president |
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1945, May 7 |
V-E Day (Germany signs surrender terms) |
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1945, August 6 |
A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima from airplane based on Tinian |
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1945, August 14 |
Japan agrees to surrender unconditionally |
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1945, September 2 |
V-J Day (Japan signs surrender terms)
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| 1945, November 24 |
Admiral Raymond Spruance is named
Military Governor of the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana Islands,
replacing Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz |
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1946, January 10 |
1st meeting of United Nations General Assembly, in London |
| 1946, February 3 |
Admiral John H. Towers is named Military
Governor of the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana Islands, replacing
Admiral Raymond Spruance |
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1946, May 2-August 31 |
United States Commercial Company conducts economic survey of
Micronesia |
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1946, July 1 |
1st United States atomic bomb test in Marshall Islands, at Bikini |
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1946, July 4 |
Inhabitants of Northern Mariana Islands permitted to reside
outside centralized camps for first time since U.S. invasion of
islands; United States grants independence to Philippines |
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1946, November |
President Truman announces United States prepared to put
Micronesia under strategic trusteeship
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1947, February 26 |
United States submits draft strategic trusteeship agreement to
United Nations Security Council |
| 1947, February 28 |
Admiral Louis E. Denfield is named
Military Governor of the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana Islands,
replacing Admiral John H. Towers |
| 1947,
April |
U.S.
Navy resettles about 200 Chamorros from Yap on Tinian |
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1947, April 2 |
United Nations Security Council approves Trusteeship Agreement |
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1947, April 23 |
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff issue Interim Directive for
Military Government for the Former Japanese Mandated Marshall,
Caroline, and Marianas Islands |
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1947, July 3 |
President Truman asks U.S. Congress for authority to approve
Trusteeship Agreement |
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1947, July 18 |
President Truman approves Trusteeship Agreement, acting
pursuant to joint resolution of Congress of same date; Truman
issues Executive Order 9875, placing Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands under U.S. Department of Navy; Admiral Louis E.
Denfield, Military Governor of the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana
Islands, is named first High Commissioner of the Trust
Territory; Government of the Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands issues Proclamation No. 1 for the government of
the Trust Territory |
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1947, December 29 |
Trust Territory Deputy High Commissioner Wright issues Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands Policy Letter P-1: Land Policy
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| 1948, April 17 |
Admiral Dewitt C. Ramsey is named High
Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,
replacing Admiral Louis E. Denfield |
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1948, October 10 |
U.S. Department of State publishes Policy on Commercial
Fishing in Pacific Island Trust Territory
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| 1949, May 1 |
Admiral Arthur W. Radford is named High
Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,
replacing Admiral Dewitt C. Ramsey |
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1950, Spring |
1st United Nations Visiting Mission observes conditions in
Micronesia |
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1950, June 25
|
North Korean troops invade South Korea
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| 1950,
July 30 |
U.S.
Congress enacts Public Law 600, beginning process of establishing
Commonwealth government in Puerto Rico |
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1950, August 1 |
U.S. Congress enacts Organic Act for Guam; Guamanians become
United States citizens |
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1950, October 26
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Communist China enters Korean War
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