1945: Japan Joins the Allies | The Indonesian War of Independence Part 1

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Nuclear bombs level Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan surrenders to the Allies in August 1945. World War Two is over, but the sudden end of Japanese hegemony leaves most of South-East Asia in a power-vacuum. The European powers hope to resume their colonial rule, but local peoples wish to rule themselves. This is the case in the Dutch East Indies- I... Read More