Timeline, Facts and Figures of W.W.II
           
        WWII Timeline

        - 1931 Sep 18: Japan occupy Manchuria
        - 1932 Mar 9: Pu-Yi the last emperor is installed by Japan as the puppet
                                emperor of Manchuria.
        - 1932 Nov 8: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president in the USA.
        - 1934 Oct 21: Mao Ze Dong leads the Communist party on the Long March
        - 1935 Oct 20: The Long March Ends
        - 1937 July 7: Beginning of the Sino-Japanese War
        - 1937 Dec 13: Nanjing (also known as Nanking) fell to Japan.
                                 Beginning of the NANJING MASSACRE
                                (300,000 people slaughtered in the next 6 weeks)
        - 1939 Sep 3: France and United Kingdom declares war on Germany
        - 1940 May 10: Germany launches offensive towards the West
        - 1940 Sep 12:  Italy Invades Egypt
        - 1941 Oct 18: Tojo replaces Prince Konoe as Japan's new Prime Minister
        - 1941 Dec 7: Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
        - 1941 Dec 8: FDR ask congress to declare war on Japan
        - 1941 Dec 8: England declares war on Japan
        - 1941 Dec 14: Japan attacks Burma
        - 1941 Dec 25: Hong Kong falls to Japan
        - 1944 July 18: Tojo Falls from Power in Japan
        - 1945 Apr 30: Hitler commits suicide
        - 1945 May 4: Germany surrenders
        - 1945 Aug 6: Hiroshima is bombed
        - 1945 Aug 9: Nagasaki is bombed
        - 1945 Aug 14: Japan surrenders
        - 1945 Sep 9: Japan's surrender is signed aboard the USS MISSOURI in
                                Tokyo Bay.
        - 1945 Nov: Nuremberg Trials begin
        - 1946 May 3: Tokyo Trials begin
        - 1946 Oct: Nuremberg Trial ends
        - 1948 Nov 10: Tokyo Trial ends
        - 1952 Sep 10: Israel signed the Luxemberg Treaty with Germany for war
                                retribution.
        - 1949 Oct 1: People's Republic of China is declared
        - 1999: People of China still waits for Japan's retribution and apology

        End of War Death Tolls

        Death Mostly Attributed to War with Japan
        China- 30,000,000
        Korea- 9,000,000
        Indonesia- 4,000,000
        Vietnam- 2,000,000
        Philipines- 1,000,000
        Australia- 27,073
        U.S- (partyly Germany) 362,561
        Japan- 3,000,000

        Death Mostly Attributed to War with Germany and Italy
        Russia- 13,300,000
        Poland Jews- 6,000,000
        Yugoslavia- 500,000
        British- 484,482
        Greece- 420,343
        Netherlands- 242,000
        Holland- 240,000
        Belgium- 101,000
        India- 36,092
        Finland- 27,000
        Spanish- 4,500
        South Africa- 2,227
        Germany- 6,850,000

        Comparison Figures

        Death Toll
        Nanjing Massacre Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bomb
        350,000 187,747
        * The Hiroshima bomb killed 138,890 people, one fourth of those dead were
        Koreans captured by the Japanese.

        Death per Day
        Nanjing Massacre 
        (Avg 1 day during 6 weeks)         		 Auschwitz Death Camp 
        (at its height in 1 day)
        8,333 6,000
        *In Nanjing, people were hand slaughtered unlike the systematic gassing in
        Auschwitz.

        The Slaughter of Nanjing is equivalent to obliterating these present day U.S.
            cities, population 350,000.
        Atlantic City Daytona Beach                 Pensecola

        The death of 30,000,000 Chinese at the hand of the Japanese army is
            equivalent to wiping off these U.S. states from the face of the earth.
        California Texas and Florida