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Southern Asia 1914
Outbreak of the Great War
The end of July saw the outbreak of World War I in Europe, pitting Russia, France, and Britain against Germany ...
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Southern Asia 1941
Japanese Invasion of Thailand and Malaya
In July 1941 the Japanese moved into southern Indochina, prompting the US and Britain to freeze Japan's assets and ...
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East Asia 1941
Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath
On the morning of December 8 (still December 7 in Hawaii), Japan launched simultaneous attacks against American and British forces ...
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Southern Asia 1942
Fall of Singapore
By February 1942 the Japanese forces invading Malaya had reached the perimeter of Singapore, Britain’s most important military base ...
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Australasia 1942
Bombing of Darwin
Allied efforts under ABDA proved unable to halt the Japanese offensive. In mid-February the vital British naval base of Singapore ...
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Southern Asia 1948
Indian conquest of Hyderabad
Following the end of British rule in India, the Nizam of Hyderabad - a Muslim ruler over a mostly Hindu population ...
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East Asia 1949
Communist Victory in Northern China
In China, the uneasy truce between Nationalists and Communists had collapsed in mid-1946. Things started well for the superior Nationalist ...
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East Asia 1959
China under Mao
Following the end of the Korean War in 1953 and France's Indochina War in 1954, China began to move ...
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East Asia 1963
Formation of Malaysia
In 1961, Indonesia attacked Dutch New Guinea. The dispute was resolved by the United Nations, which transferred the territory to ...
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East Asia 1968
Vietnam War
At the end of the First Indochina War, Vietnam had been divided between a Communist North and a pro-Western South ...
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Australasia 1971
Independence for the Pacific Islands
The 1960s saw the beginning of the withdrawal of the colonial powers from the Pacific Islands. In 1962, New Zealand ...
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Europe 2014
Rise of Daesh
In late 2013, Daesh (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also called ISIS or ISIL) had emerged as the ...