World War II Impacting Colonized Asia

Abstract

AbstractWorld War II immensely impacted colonized Asia. Central Asia was a de facto colonized area with the name of constitutive republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. South Asia was mostly a British colony. Until 1858, the British East India Company did rule British India as a side business. With the bankruptcy of the Company by the Sepoy Mutiny (1857–1858), the British state took it over with Delhi set as its capital. The British state inherited the East India Company's policy of keeping small army and small colonial government. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were born out of massive suffering of internal division and relocation. Southeast Asia was mostly colonized by Western powers, the American Philippines, Dutch Indonesia, French Indochina, and British Malaya. Indonesia and Vietnam in Southeast Asia obtained independence by liberation. East Asia was mostly colonized and semicolonized amidst civil strifes for long by Western powers. Taiwan and Korea and Manchuria were long colonized by Japan. Manchuria was annexed by Japan. In China itself, there are internal strifes among military cliques, the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party. They got civil-cum-international wars. After World War II, Korea experienced civil-cum-international war, the animosity therebetween has been prolonged until today. Taiwan was kept isolated after major powers recognized the People's Republic of China in 1971–1972. East Asia has been aloof or apart to one another, although its nongovernmental business connectivity has been dense among them.