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On 25 October 1945, Governor-General Rikichi Andō handed over the administration of Taiwan and the Penghu islands to the head of the Taiwan Investigation Commission, Chen Yi. [132] [133] On 26 October, the government of the Republic of China declared that Taiwan had become a province of China. [134]
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.
In the Late Pleistocene, sea levels were about 140 metres (460 ft) lower than at present, exposing the floor of the shallow Taiwan Strait as a land bridge. [6] A concentration of vertebrate fossils has been found in the channel between the Penghu Islands and Taiwan, including a partial jawbone designated Penghu 1, apparently belonging to a previously unknown species of genus Homo, dated ...
On 25 October 1945, Japan handed over Taiwan and Penghu to the Republic of China, as a result of the World War II. This marked the end of Japanese rule and the beginning of post-war era of Taiwan. This event was referred to by the Republic of China as the retrocession of Taiwan (臺灣光復).
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 ...
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.
China's could seize of some of Taiwan's most vulnerable islands within the next six months, war analysts warn. An aggressive, short-of-war campaign could force the islands into a quarantine.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. 1927–1949 civil war in China For other uses, see Chinese Civil War (disambiguation). Chinese Civil War Part of the interwar period, the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Cold War Clockwise from top left: Communist troops at the Battle of Siping National Revolutionary Army troops ...