Japanese Occupation
This country allied with Japan and gained Cambodian territory.
What is Thailand?
The date of the Pearl Harbor attack.
What is December 7, 1941?
The leader of the Viet Minh who declared Vietnamese independence in 1945.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This 1945 event marked the start of Vietnam’s fight for independence.
What is the declaration of independence by Ho Chi Minh?
This British proposal aimed to unify Malaya and grant equal citizenship to all ethnic groups.
What is the Malayan Union?
Japan promoted this concept to justify its occupation of Southeast Asia.
What is the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?
The fall of this city to the Japanese shocked the British Empire.
What is Singapore?
This Indonesian leader collaborated with Japan but later led the country to independence.
Who is Sukarno?
This 1949 agreement marked the final recognition of Indonesian independence.
What is the Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference (or Dutch transfer of sovereignty)?
This organization, led by Dato Onn bin Jaafar, opposed the Malayan Union.
What is UMNO (United Malays National Organization)?
These were forced into sexual slavery across Japanese-occupied territories.
Who were comfort women?
This massive infrastructure project in Burma caused tens of thousands of deaths.
What is the Burma Railway?
He led the Malayan Communist Party and resisted both Japanese and British control.
Who is Chin Peng?
These two major religious nationalist groups competed with the Viet Minh in the south.
Who are the Hoa Hao and the Cao Dai?
This group of largely Chinese guerrillas fought against the Japanese occupation.
What is the MPAJA (Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army)?
This infamous march in the Philippines led to the death of thousands of POWs.
What is the Bataan Death March?
This 1943 conference was Japan’s attempt to rally Asian unity against Western imperialism.
What is the Greater East Asia Conference?
The leader of UMNO who opposed the Malayan Union.
Who is Dato Onn bin Jaafar?
This agreement allowed limited Dutch recognition of the Indonesian Republic in Java, Madura, and Sumatra.
What is the Linggajati Agreement?
This post-war conflict saw communist insurgents challenge British control from 1948 to 1960.
What is the Malayan Emergency?
Japan attempted to spread its culture in SEA through this religious-political practice.
What is emperor worship?
This pivotal 1954 battle marked the end of French colonial rule in Vietnam.
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
This group collaborated with the Japanese in Indonesia and later formed the basis of the army.
What is PETA (Defenders of the Fatherland)?
This 1948 communist uprising was crushed by Sukarno’s forces
What is the Madiun Affair?
This 1948 political development replaced the Malayan Union and paved the way for independence.
What is the Federation of Malaya?