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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1942, Jan. 2 | |
| The Japanese took Manila. | 1 |
| Quezon and Osmena were evacuated from the Philippines and formed a government in exile. Most of the political elite joined the Japanese-sponsored government, while the majority of the population supported the guerrilla resistance to the Japanese. | 2 |
| 1944 | |
| Quezon died in the U.S. in August. American troops landed in the Philippines in October. (See The Philippines, 1945–2000) | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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