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This is a list of wars and conflicts in Asia ... c. 2500 BCE Entemena of Lagash succeeded his father En-anna-tum I and re-established ... 1912–1913 First Balkan War.
Goldin, Peter B. Central Asia in World History (Oxford UP, 2011) Holcombe, Charles. A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century (2010). Huffman, James L. Japan in World History (Oxford, 2010) Jansen, Marius B. Japan and China: From War to Peace, 1894-1972 (1975)
The First Anglo-Maratha War ended in 1782 with a restoration of the pre-war status quo. [33] The Second and Third Anglo-Maratha wars resulted in British victories. [34] [35] After the Surrender of Peshwa Bajirao II on 1818, the East India company acquired control of a large majority of the Indian Subcontinent. [36] [37] The First Anglo-Sikh War ...
After the Ōnin War in 1467, Japan enters in a state of constant civil war known as the Sengoku period) Azuchi–Momoyama period (1568–1603): Japan's central government collapsed after 100 years of constant civil wars. Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu unified the country and re-established a central government.
Japan's wars in Asia became a part of WWII after Japan's attack of the United States' Pearl Harbor. Japan's defeat in Asia by the hand of the allies contributed to the creation of a new world order under American and Soviet influence across the world. Afterwards, East Asia was caught in the cross hairs of the Cold War.
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...
Named after the date 07-05-54 (7 May 1954) which marks the end of the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu, it commemorates the First Indochina War from the Vietnamese point of view. The 2017 film by Olivier Lorelle, Ciel Rouge , starring Cyril Descours and Audrey Giacomini , is set during the early part of the First Indochina War.
The United States was involved in at least one hostile encounter with Germans in the Pacific during World War I. On 7 April 1917, SMS Cormoran was scuttled in Apra Harbor, Guam to prevent her capture by the auxiliary cruiser USS Supply. The Americans fired their first shots of the war at the Germans as they attempted to sink the ship.