Pacific Atrocities Education

On October 25, 1947, the United States government helped the Chinese Nationalist Party, Kuomingtang (KMT) President Chiang Kai-Shek, flee the overwhelming communist forces. He then established Republic of China on an island later to be known as #Taiwan pacificatrocities.org/book-taiwan-is…

Hồ Chí Minh was born in Nghệ An province, in Central Vietnam. He led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941 onward. Initially, it was an umbrella group for all parties fighting for Vietnam's independence, but the Communist Party gained majority support after 1945. H

On 19 June, Japan took advantage of the defeat of France and the impending armistice to present the Governor-General of Indochina, Georges Catroux, with a request, in fact, an ultimatum, demanding the closure of all supply routes to China and the admission of a 40-man Japanese in

Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, Bác Hồ, Người cha dân tộc or simply Bác, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and

The Japanese invasion of French Indochina (仏印進駐, Futsu-in shinchū) was a short undeclared military confrontation between Japan and France in northern French Indochina. The fighting lasted from 22 to 26 September 1940; the same time as the Battle of South Guangxi in the S

Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan was born in Gò Công, a Mekong Delta town in what was then the French colony of Cochinchina, one of the five areas (the others being the protectorates of Annam, Tonkin, Cambodia, and Laos) that composed the Union of French Indochina. Her

The Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA) was an organization created in World War II in Australia to combat rising labor shortages in the farming sector. The AWLA organized female workers to be employed by farmers to replace male workers who had joined the armed forces. The AWLA

Januaria Constantino Keller, better known by her stage name Carmen Rosales and by her nickname Mameng, was a noted Filipina actress and World War II guerilla fighter. Her acting career spanned the decades immediately before, during, and after World War II. #pinay #filipina #ww2 #

She was a third-generation Chinese American; her maternal grandparents had moved to California from a village in Guangzhou. Her grandfather was a pioneer in the abalone industry on the Monterey Peninsula. In 1941, Gee enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley to study p

March 20, 1942: General Douglas MacArthur, recently arrived in Australia after evacuation from the Philippines, utters famous words: “I came through and I shall return”

Leones was working as a teacher and preparing to be a nun when the Japanese invasion happened. Leones was credited for identifying enemy ships that arrived in San Fernando, together with its contents and respective captains. She was the mastermind for the explosion of Japanese

another unsung heroine: Elena Poblete was the daughter of one of the leaders of the some 15,000 strong group. As a leader herself, she was killed in 1943 after the Japanese tracked her and her men to a village. Poblete rushed to the frontline after ordering the majority of her so

December 8th, 1941 marked the start of the full-scale invasion of the Philippines during World War 2. With the surrender of the Bataan Peninsula and the fortified island Corregidor in the Spring of 1942, all hope seemed lost. But, almost overnight, the Philippine underground resi

March 17, 1942: Less than a week after being evacuated from the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Australia with his wife and four-year-old son

Yay Panlilio was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, in 1913. She was a mestiza, a woman of mixed race; her father was Irish-American, and her mother was Filipina. Panlilio worked in Manila as a reporter for the Philippines Herald before the war. Later, when the threat of invasi

This day in 1935, Adolf Hitler announced mandatory military conscription. It was the first of many violations of Versailles Treaty restrictions to be committed by Germany. The Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic would be renamed the Wehrmacht. #WW2

A white-washed German Tiger tank in the outskirts of Kharkov, Ukraine, March 1943. #WW2

Two men from the 363rd Field Artillery Battalion take advantage of an abandoned barber shop chair on Okinawa on June 10, 1945. #History #WWII

By 1943, 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry, which made up 65% of the industry’s total workforce. Before the war, there had been less than 1% of women working in the industry. #womenhistorymonth #ww2 #worldwar2 #feminism

This day in 1938, Anschluss, German forces crossed the Austrian border, the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. Arrests of thousands of potential opponents of the Nazis began. #WW2

View of the sinking of G-class destroyer HMS Glowworm (H92) from the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper on April 8, 1940. #History #WWII