Category: Malaysia

Australasia 1815

Settling the Australian interior

Until the 1810s all British attempts to...

Southern Asia 1914

Outbreak of the Great War

The end of July saw the outbreak of World War...

Southern Asia 1941

Japanese invasion of Thailand and Malaya

In July 1941 the Japanese moved into southern...

Asia Pacific 1941

Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath

On the morning of December 8 (still December 7...

Southern Asia 1942

Fall of Singapore

By February 1942 the Japanese forces invading...

Australasia 1942

Bombing of Darwin

Allied efforts under ABDA proved unable to...

Southern Asia 1948

Indian conquest of Hyderabad

Following the end of British rule in India,...

Asia Pacific 1949

Communist Victory in Northern China

In China, the uneasy truce between...

Asia Pacific 1959

China under Mao

Following the end of the Korean War in 1953...

Asia Pacific 1963

Formation of Malaysia

In 1961, Indonesia attacked Dutch New Guinea....

Asia Pacific 1968

Vietnam War

At the end of the First Indochina War, Vietnam...

Australasia 1971

Independence for the Pacific Islands

The 1960s saw the beginning of the withdrawal...

Europe 2014

Rise of Daesh

In late 2013, Daesh (the Islamic State of Iraq...