World War II: <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_Campaign" id="mw1w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aleutian Islands Campaign">Aleutian Islands Campaign</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Empire of Japan">Imperial Japanese</a> soldiers begin occupying the American islands of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attu_Island" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Attu Island">Attu</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiska" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kiska">Kiska</a>, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands" id="mw2w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aleutian Islands">Aleutian Islands</a> off Alaska.