Template:Timeline WWII - Pacific Theater

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DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/09/1939 till:02/09/1945

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 bar:Singapore   text:Singapore
 bar:Indies      text:Dutch Indies
 bar:Philippines text:Philippines
 bar:NewGuinea   text:New Guinea
 bar:Marianas    text:Mariana Isl.
 bar:Carolinas   text:Caroline Isl.
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 bar:Aleutians   text:Aleutian Isl.
 bar:Wake        text:Wake Isl.
 bar:Midway      text:Midway Isl.
 bar:US          text:United States
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 bar:Conferences text:Conferences

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  1. with shift:(0,..) the left/right aligned text starts/stops exactly below supplied date
  2. a small adjustment centers the date part of the text below the line mark
  3. extra adjustments may be needed to avoid overlapping texts

Define $dy = -15 Define $leftneg2 = align:left shift:(-20, $dy) Define $leftneg1 = align:left shift:(-10, $dy) Define $left = align:left shift:( 0, $dy) Define $leftpos1 = align:left shift:( 10, $dy) Define $leftpos2 = align:left shift:( 20, $dy) Define $center = align:center shift:( 0, $dy) Define $right = align:right shift:( 0, $dy) Define $rightneg1 = align:right shift:(-10, $dy) Define $rightpos1 = align:right shift:( 10, $dy) Define $rightpos2 = align:right shift:( 20, $dy) Define $leftPH = align:left shift:( 3, $dy) # avoid collision with

                                                  # Pearl Harbour red line

Define $dy2 = 10 Define $leftWW2 = align:left shift:( 0, $dy2) Define $rightWW2 = align:right shift:( 0, $dy2)


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 from:10/12/1941 till:10/12/1941
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 from:01/03/1942 till:03/03/1942
 from:07/05/1942 till:08/05/1942 text:6
 from:04/06/1942 till:07/06/1942 text:7
 from:09/08/1942 till:09/08/1942 text:8
 from:24/08/1942 till:25/08/1942 text:9
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 from:09/08/1941 till:12/08/1941 text:2
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 from:22/12/1941 till:14/01/1942 text:4
 from:14/01/1943 till:24/01/1943 text:5
 from:17/08/1943 till:24/08/1943 text:6
 from:18/10/1943 till:01/11/1943 text:78
 from:22/11/1943 till:25/11/1943
 from:26/11/1943 till:01/12/1943 text:9
 from:01/07/1944 till:22/07/1944 text:10
 from:04/02/1945 till:11/02/1945 text:11
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 at:01/04/1945 mark:(line,white)
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 bar:Solomons        at:07/08/1942 $leftneg1  text:7/8 Guadalcanal 9/2
 bar:Solomons        at:25/08/1943 $leftneg1  text:25/8 New Georgia taken
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 bar:Marshalls       at:21/01/1944 $leftneg1  text:21/1-23/2
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 bar:Marianas        at:15/06/1944 $leftneg1  text:15/6
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 bar:Aleutians       at:07/06/1942 $leftneg1  text:7/6
 bar:Aleutians       at:11/05/1943 $leftneg1  text:11/5
 bar:Aleutians       at:28/07/1943 $leftneg1  text:28/7
 bar:Thailand        at:08/12/1941 $leftPH    text:8-14/12 Thailand allies with Japan
 bar:Thailand        at:15/07/1944 $leftneg1  text:./7 Pro Japanese govt. ousted
 bar:Malaya          at:08/12/1941 $leftPH    text:8/12-13/1
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 bar:Burma           at:15/12/1941 $left      text:15/12
 bar:Burma           at:20/05/1942 $leftneg1  text:20/5
 bar:Burma           at:13/02/1943 $leftneg1  text:13/2-29/4 Chindits
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  text:World War II - Pacific Theatre

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 fontsize:M
 text:Preliminary events
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 text:^1933^ 27/3^Japan leaves League of Nations
 text:^1940^ 25/9^project Ultra - Japanese code cracked
 text:^    ^ 27/7^Japan claims Greater East Asia
 text:^    ^     ^                      ^Co-Prosperity Sphere
 text:^    ^ 27/9^Japan signs Tripartite Pact with Germ./Italy
 text:^1941^ 26/7^US freezes Jap. assets, oil/steel embargo
 text:^    ^30/11^Japan makes final decision to attack US

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 text:^ 1^1942^7/12^Japanese attack Pearl Harbour
 text:^ 2^^10/12^Japanese carrier aircraft sink
 text:^  ^^^Prince of Wales and Repulse (Br.)
 text:^ 3^^19/2^Battle of Lumbok Str
 text:^ 4^^25/2^Battle of the Java Sea
 text:^ 5^^1/3^Battle of Sunda Str
 text:^ 6^^7-8/5^Battle of the Coral Sea
 text:^ 7^^4-7/6^Battle of Midway
 text:^ 8^^9/8^Battle of Savo Island
 text:^ 9^^24-25/8^Battle of the Eastern Solomons
 text:^10^^26/10^Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
 text:^11^1943 ^3-5/3^Battle of Bismarck Sea
 text:^12^1944 ^ 19-20/6^Battle of the Philippine Sea
 text:^13^^23-27/10^Battle of Leyte Gulf

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 text:Conferences
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 text:^ 1^ 1940^      27/9^Berlin Ger,It,Jap Tripartite Pact
 text:^ 2^ 1941^    9-12/8^N-Atlantic VS,GB Atlantic Charter
 text:^ 3^ 1941^ 29/9-1/10^Moscow US,GB,SU  more aid to SU
 text:^ 4^41/42^22/12-14/1^Washington US,GB 'Europe first' + UN draft
 text:^ 5^ 1943^   14-24/1^Casablanca US,GB
 text:^ 6^     ^   17-24/8^Quebec
 text:^ 7^     ^18/10-1/11^Moscow US,GB,SU
 text:^ 8^     ^  22-25/11^Cairo US,GB,China
 text:^ 9^     ^26/11-1/12^Tehran US,GB,SU
 text:^10^ 1944^    1-22/7^Bretton Woods 44 nations est. IMF + World Bank
 text:^11^ 1945^    4-11/2^Yalta US,GB,SU
 text:^12^     ^ 25/4-26/6^San Francisco 46 nations UN Charter
 text:^13^     ^  17/7-2/8^Potsdam US,GB,SU

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  pos:(735,22)  tabs:(100-left)
  text:Date format dd/mm
  pos:(10,50)
  text:"Author Zachte (http://eza.gemm.nl|Erik)" # link:http://eza.gemm.nl
  text:Version 2.0 - April 6 2004
  text:"Plot generated with [1] (http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Introduction.htm|EasyTimeline)"

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