Japan
Japan
at War: A beginner's guide
Books and websites – from the seizure of Manchuria in 1931 to the atomic
bombs that ended the war in the Pacific in 1945 – reveal the conflict from
a mainly Japanese perspective.
- Cities and disaster
An examination of the calamities that befell seven cities: London (1666), Lisbon (1755), Chicago (1871), San Francisco (1906), Tokyo/Yokohama (1923), Florence (1966), New Orleans (2005). - Combatant states: Japan
Facts and figures arising from World War I. - Hirohito
Japanese emperor whose role in World War II is still debated. - The Holocaust
An umbrella website covering all aspects of the Holocaust of World War II, including a chronology (1923 to present) and information on victims and survivors, war crimes trials and later controversies. - Mao Tse Tung
This C4 Learning website evaluates Mao’s role as a leading figure in China and the extent to which his work benefited or damaged the country. - The Nuremberg Trials
Examines the origins of the Nuremberg trials and their counterparts in Tokyo, how they were carried out, the sentences they passed and their legacy. - Tit for tat
Acts of vengeance and their consequences – including such ‘triggers’ as the murder of Genghis Khan’s envoys in 1218, the murder of the Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972 and the storming of the Golden Temple of Amritsar in 1984, as well as other examples of retribution from Japan, Czechoslovakia and Korea. - USS Indianapolis
The terrible fate of the crew of the ship that transported the Hiroshima bomb across the Pacific. - The War of the World
According to historian Niall Ferguson, from the Russo-Japanese war of 1904/5 to the aftershocks of the Cold War, the 20th century was by far the bloodiest in history. In this website, Ferguson explains why this came about, and there is an extensive chronology of the events that made this the ‘age of hatred’. - Weapons of War
This C4 Learning website charts the development of weapons technology from World War I to the present. - World War II: A chronology
Every aspect of the conflict, including all the major events and personalities and all theatres of war, accompanied by links to relevant websites. - Yamashita’s gold
Was a fortune in gold hidden in the Philippines by the Japanese imperial family at the end of the war?
