World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_International_Settlement" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Shanghai International Settlement">Shanghai International Settlement</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Malaya" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Japanese invasion of Malaya">Malaya</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Thailand" id="mwgw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Japanese invasion of Thailand">Thailand</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hong_Kong" id="mwhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1941–1942)" id="mwhQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philippines campaign (1941–1942)">the Philippines</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies_campaign" id="mwhg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dutch East Indies campaign">the Dutch East Indies</a>. (See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_7" id="mwhw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="December 7">December 7</a> for the concurrent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" id="mwiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">attack on Pearl Harbor</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere" id="mwiQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Western Hemisphere">Western Hemisphere</a>.)