Investment in regional projects is allowing China to expand its influence in the South Pacific at the U.S.'s expense, ...

How did radar play a crucial advantage for the Allied forces’ victory in WW2? AeroTime takes a look at how radar was deployed ...

The events surrounding the end of WWII cemented Mongolia’s national independence and sovereignty. Mongolian troops march in a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi ...

On September 18, 1931, the explosion of the Japanese-owned railway track near the city of Mukden, Manchuria in northeastern China, marked the beginning of a full-scale Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects ... For China, it began in 1937, with the Sino-Japanese War, or even earlier with the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931.

The U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, while the Soviets invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria in northeast China on Aug. 9. “We won World War II on August 15 ...

Jonathan Wainwright, the highest-ranking American POW of World War II. Jonathan Horn ... to camps in Taiwan and eventually all the way to Manchuria. Perhaps the cruelest torture was isolation ...

Palestinians have been returning to the north of Gaza since a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was declared in January, looking to salvage what’s left of their homes after more than 15 months ...

The major colonial powers more or less went along with this, and since at the time they set the international standards of sovereignty and published most of the world’s maps they helped ... At the end ...

Japan invades Manchuria, sets up puppet regime ... Isoroku Yamamoto, now an admiral, takes command of the Imperial Navy. World War II starts with German invasion of Poland in September.

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view ...