HIST10012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Responsible Government, Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese Civil War
Document Summary
They were imported from europe to a certain extent but given a local twist: there were two main developments that structured the economic and political landscape of asia after the second world war: the. American occupation of japan and the establishment of a new communist chinese government. Transfers of power: there were two other key transfers of power that happened during and after the second world war, the first transfer of power occurred when the british surrendered singapore to the japanese in 1942. This was viewed as an incredibly humiliating and devastating moment for the. British: the memory of the humiliation and the fall of singapore was not forgotten. This caused many of the territories to turn against the idea of japanese occupation, although they were welcoming to it at first: japan was devastated by the bombing of the cities of hiroshima and.
