Modern Era · Southeast Asia · War
1941
Singapore campaign begins
December 8, 1941
As news of Pearl Harbor reached Malaya, Japanese forces landed on the Malay coast and began the fastest conquest in modern military history. Within ten weeks they had taken the whole peninsula and forced the surrender of Britain's Far East fortress at Singapore with eighty thousand prisoners. Churchill called it the worst disaster in British military history.
In context
Also in 1941 (6 other events on record)
- Operation Barbarossa · Europe · War
- Pearl Harbor · North America · War
- Japan strikes across the Pacific · East Asia · War
- Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech · North America · War
- Atlantic Charter issued · North America · Politics
- Bismarck sunk · Europe · War
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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