Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
During the Second Sino-Japanese War it served as a base for invasions of China, and later Southeast Asia and the Pacific during World War II. In 1945, following the end of hostilities in World War II, the nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC), led by the Kuomintang (KMT), took control of Taiwan. The legality and nature of its ...
The Second World War's hostilities came to a close on 2 September 1945, with the defeat of the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany.Taiwan, which had been ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, was placed under the control of the Kuomintang-led Republic of China (ROC) by the promulgation of General Order No. 1 and the signing of the Instrument of Surrender on that day.
Twitchett, Denis (1998b), The Cambridge History of China Volume 8 The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 2, Cambridge University Press; Wong, Young-tsu (2017), China's Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century: Victory at Full Moon, Springer; Wong, Tin (2022), Approaching Sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands, Springer
Since the 1620s, cross-strait relations have been influenced by the Dutch, the Spanish, the Han Chinese, the Manchus, and the Japanese, and mainland China and Taiwan have either unified or separated, with ups and downs. [4] In 1945, World War II ended and the Republic of China took over Taiwan. Cross-strait relations developed in a tortuous ...
Therefore, the event was named "retrocession", [2] a notion that has been controversial since the democratisation of Taiwan in the 1990s. The date of the handover was annually celebrated as the Retrocession Day, a former public holiday in Taiwan from 1946 to 2000. On 15 August 1945, Japan announced its surrender following its defeat in World ...
In 1949 after being defeated by Mao Zedong's communist forces, the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan, and Republic of China remains the island's formal name.
Article 2. It is recognized that under Article 2 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan signed at the city of San Francisco in the United States of America on September 8, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the San Francisco Treaty), Japan has renounced all right, title and claim to Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) as well as the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands.
Before the Dutch colonized Taiwan in the 17th century, it had been a small insular nation ruled by a small group of tribal leaders. Over the course of 200 years, Taiwan would become occupied by ...