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Pages in category "1940 in Asia" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1940 in India;
Pages in category "1940s in Asia" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Fertile Crescent Plan
This category is for historic maps showing all or part of Asia. See subcategories for smaller areas. "Historic maps" means maps made over seventy (70) years ago.
Members of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and territories occupied by the Japanese army at maximum height in 1942. Japan and its Axis allies Thailand and Azad Hind are in dark red; occupied territories/puppet states are in lighter red. Korea, Taiwan, Karafuto (South Sakhalin), and Chishima (Kuril) Archipelago were integral parts of ...
Netherlands – Kingdom of the Netherlands (to 15 May 1940, from 5 May 1945) Capital: Amsterdam: Widely recognized independent state. LON member state to 20 April 1946. UN member state from 10 December 1945. Under occupation by Germany from 10 May 1940 to 5 May 1945 , also had a government in exile from 15 May 1940 to 5 May 1945.
This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan. Control over all territories except most of the Japanese mainland ( Hokkaido , Honshu , Kyushu , Shikoku , and some 6,000 small surrounding islands) was renounced by Japan in the ...
The concept became expressed in the New Order in East Asia (東亜新秩序, Tōa Shin Chitsujo). In 1940, the concept was expanded by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, who sought to create the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, including Japan, Manchukuo, China, and parts of Southeast Asia.
Political map of the Asia-Pacific region, 1939. The decision by Japan to attack the United States remains controversial. Study groups in Japan had predicted ultimate disaster in a war between Japan and the U.S., and the Japanese economy was already straining to keep up with the demands of the War with China.