The Battle Of The War On Southeast Asia

Consistent with Japanese propaganda the nationalist leaders held belief that Japan was “the leader, protector and light of Asia”. However, this perception of liberation from colonial rule was a façade as the civilians of occupied nations experienced harsher treatment under the Japanese than they did under the colonial authorities.

For this assignment, we were asked to research, in pairs, the effects of foreign imperialism on two Asian societies. Chris and I chose China and Japan as our Asian societies.

There is an extensive history empirical power, repeatedly and successfully controlling another state or group of people in order to exploit it economically. In Southeast Asia there were 5 colonial powers; the United Kingdom, France, Dutch, America, and Japan, their primary motives for establishing colonies in the region was to get control of trade routes, to get access to the natural resources and raw materials, and the cheap labor, as well as to establish naval and military bases so that they could amass influence in the region. Prior to World War II, a third of the world 's area was colonized by European colonial powers between the 15th and 19th centuries, and another third of the world 's population were in colonies, dependencies, protectorates, or dominions. In this essay, I will focus on the British and French colonization in Southeast Asia. The British-controlled Burma, most of the Malayan peninsula, and Singapore, which was a strategic port and later became a naval base for the British. Meanwhile, the French controlled the adjoining countries of Vietnamese, Cambodia, and Laos, collectively known as French Indochina. This period of colonization in Southeast Asia brought many changes to the regions society, politics, and the economy. For instance, both colonial powers introduced political changes such as introducing a centralized form of government and changes to the justice systems in many of the colonized countries. There were also social impacts resulting from the

Enslaved, starved, drained, and murdered. These were the conditions that the citizens of Indonesia had endured while being forcefully colonized by the Dutch East India Trading Company. The Dutch along with other European countries began the forced colonization around the world. Dutch and British East India Trading Companies were the most powerful; however, they differed from each other greatly. While the British were slow and gradual during their takeover of India, the Dutch heavily contrasted with that by rapidly wiping out and conquering the Islands of Indonesia with much tyranny and bloodshed. The Dutch Colonization possessed massive injustice against Indonesian people and greatly harmed them in two major ways, exploitation and violence.

How significant was the Tet Offensive in achieving a communist victory in Vietnam by 1975?

Evaluate the effectiveness of the Strategies used by the opposing sides in the Second Indochina War (1965-1973). Why was it inevitable that the South (USA and Republic of Vietnam) would be defeated?It was inevitable that the USA and the Republic of Vietnam would be defeated in the Second Indochina war of 1965-1973 because of the effective strategies used by the North, with the use of Guerrilla warfare and the Ho Chin Minh trail. The south was defeated because their tactics like using conventional ground warfare and air warfare and their Pacification Campaigns were totally inappropriate for the war in Vietnam.

The Japanese empire was in great power by this time period, and they thought themselves as the king of the East Asian race. Japan, the “old order”, also believed that some day Europe and America would take over their power and become the “new orders”(Doc A). Japan was one

I do not think that the United States were the good guys in the Philippine- American war. The only right that we had to be in the Philippines was the right taken from Spain. In many ways the imperialism idea that the U.S. had were undemocratic. The United States at the time was developing and did not have adequate resources to keep military in foreign places. I think that we should have focused on own land. We have a large chunk of land full of growth possibilities. The war was not only brutal on both sides, but it also increased tensions about race. Overall the war did not accomplish much besides hurt both sides. The United States should have stopped their efforts after they met resistance.

Japan is a small island nation off the coast of Eastern Asia. Despite its size, Japan has proved to be formidable both economically and militarily. Since the expedition of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 opened up the past feudalistic and reclusive Japan, this nation has expanded and adopted many imperialistic policies as well as taken a more aggressive military stance. Japan has changed in many ways, but has also continued upholding traditional practices throughout 1853 and 1941.

The Japanese pursuit for an empire in South East Asia helped changed the balance of world power away from Europe, by taking their most lucrative colonies. Soon after the Japanese defeat in World War II, most of the colonies won their independence from their European masters. This essay will be arguing that despite the vast geographical distance and cultural, racial differences, as well as the different time periods involved, Japanese and European intentions were very similar, and that these similarities contributed to the weakening of Imperialism as a doctrine. To do so, this essay will be examining the reasons for the Japanese

Both Japan and China lie in the East of Asia. ‪To a certain extent，Japan and China own similar culture background, in the Confucian Cultural Circle. But when we look back into the modern history development, Japan and China made quite different decisions when facing the western countries’ aggression. China suffered the invasion in 1840 after the first Sino-British War. Japan was in a similar situation in the black boat incident in 1853, the Opium War made the West began to pay attention to East Asia. From then on, Japan began to face the western culture. ‬The reactions, as well as the result of Japan and China were quite disparate. This article wants to discuss what lead to the difference. ‬‬

Indonesia is the largest country in South East Asia and the third most populous in the world. Indonesia’s geographic proximity to Australia makes its bilateral relationship with Australia an important one for both

The events of World War Two such as the failed Malaya campaign, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Pearl Harbour and the stretched resources of Britain, led to Australia developing a more independent foreign policy however, independent of Britain. The changing of alliance between Britain, Australia and the United States of America has led to a substantial impact on shaping Australian society and where Australia are today. The fall of Singapore and the Malaya campaign brought the war extremely close to Australia even reaching Australian soil for the first time and generated new opinions and perspectives on the war for all Australians. Furthermore, with its greatest military defeat of all time, Britain had to recover and Australia had to

At the outbreak of the war in August of 1914, which merely 4 years after ascending to the Throne in 1910, the King Vajiravudh monitoring and was well informed about development of the war in Europe. Prior to Siam joined the war the king Vajiravudh observed that Siam was geographically so remote from the war and he was rightly in thinking that it was wise for Siam to maintain strict and impartial neutrality. The reason behind this decision was due to the fact that there were danger signs of the threats to Siamese independence especially during the early years of the reign. As can be see from the last decade of nineteenth century Siam was the only independent country in the South East Asia that was surrounded by British and French colonies from east to west. The incident at ‘Pak Nam’, in 1893, in which French brought the gun boats from their colonies in Indo-China to the ‘Mae Nam’ and trained the guns on the King’s Palace in Bangkok, were still fresh in the mine of people in Siam. As a result of this conflicted Siam had to cede to France the right bank of Mae Khong River which included Loung Pra Bang followed by the whole of Cambodia which included Phra Vuhear temple in 1907 after signed Entente Cordiale agreement of 1907. As well as these Siam also ceded Kedah, Kelanton, Trangkanu and Perlis to Britain in 1909. Until about 1910s Germany became a new competitor on colonial affairs, and show increased influence in Siam. According to Directory of Bangkok and Siam published in

West Papua is a nation bordering Papua New Guinea. It was colonised and is ruled by the Indonesian government, a rule maintained by force by the Indonesian military. It is a country with a long running colonial history; firstly, by the Dutch as part of the Dutch East Indies from 1898 through to 1950’s. After gaining independence Indonesia made claims to West Papua despite the Dutch’s testimony to the cultural and ethnic differences between West