ocr: Japan for the first time; plays games against. Japanese powered airplane flight(1903) university and club baseball teams (1908) Japan presents flowering cherry trees to the U.S. (Washington, D.C.) as a gift of friendship (1912) Panama Canal opens (1914) World War I (1914 - 18) Washington Conterence (1921 -22) Charles A. Lindbergh becomes the first person to com- plete a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1927) World War II (1939 -45) The Pacific War begins (1941) The Fulbright Program is established (1946) The San Francisco Peace Treaty and the U.S.- The Korean War (1950 -53) Japan ...