Asian Nationalism (east asia

• Mongolia


  Home to various ethnic tribes who were considered as nomads that herds sheeps, horses, and other animals as their way of living
• Genghis Khan founded the Mongol empire


  1206
• The Mongol empire was known to be the largest empire in the history of man
• Kublai Khan, Genghis Khan's successor, was able to conquer China
• Civil war rose among Mongols which made it easier for the Chinese Ming Dynasty to conquer them in 1919
• Bogd Khan, the last Khagan of Mongols, proclaimed the independence of the country


  1911
• Bogd Khan's proclamation of independence was not true independence
• Mongolia was free from the Chinese colonizers and Mongolian People's Republic was declared


  1921
• Opium Wars

  Fought by the locals against the British Empire because China attempted to limit the entry of the depressant drug Opium in the country
• Opium Wars happened


  1839 to 1860
• China failed in the Opium Wars, resulting in the surrender of lands and ports to the British Empire
• Mao Zedong led the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC)


  October 1, 1949
• The creation of the PRC ended the civil unrest between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, also known as Kuomintang (KMT)
• Japan's "closed door policy"

  Avoid or limit foreign interaction within the country by opening only one port for each foreign country such as France and the United States
• Pre-independence government in Japan

  Shogunate, led by a shogun
• Japan became an imperial power and started World War II by bombing Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
• Entry of the United States to Japan occurred after World War II


  1945-1952
• General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Japan, encouraged the former Emperor Hirohito to adopt liberal governance practices to rebuild the country
• The San Francisco Peace Treaty marked the official entry of Japan to the list of independent nations in the world

  1951
• Korea (before the division of North and South) has been invaded, influenced, and fought over by its larger neighbors
• Mongols occupied the lands of Korea from 1231 until the early 1400s
• Imperial Japan followed in 1592 to 1597
• The success of the Japanese people in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894 and Russo-Japanese war of 1904 led to the annexing of Korea to the Japanese Empire
• When Japan lost World War II in 1945, North Korea and South Korea were created
• The Republic of Korea (R.O.K) in the south was established


  August 1948
• North established the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.)


  The next month
• The islands of Taiwan were invaded by the Dutch people from the Netherlands and Spaniards in the early 1700s
• The Qing dynasty of China incorporated Taiwan and annexed it as a province


  1887
• After the first Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95, Taiwan was given by treaty to Imperial Japan
• When Japan lost in World War II, Taiwan was taken under care by the Republic of China or R.O.C. a nationalist party
• Taiwan shares a history with China which is why there is a pending question up-to-date if Taiwan is part of China or an independent nation
• Starting 1971, the United States and Australia have recognised the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of "one China"
• According to the writers of Britannica Encyclopedia, the US initially accepted that Taiwan was part of China, but later followed the Australian position of simply acknowledging the PRC's sovereign claim to Taiwan
• Taiwan celebrates its independence day


  Every 10th of October
• Mongolia


  Home to various ethnic tribes who were considered as nomads that herds sheeps, horses, and other animals as their way of living
• Genghis Khan founded the Mongol empire


  1206
• Kublai Khan


  Genghis Khan's successor, was able to conquer China
• Civil war rose among Mongols

  Made it easier for the Chinese Ming Dynasty to conquer them in 1919
• Bogd Khan, the last Khagan of Mongols, proclaimed the independence of the country


  1911
• Bogd Khan's proclamation was not true independence