WWII and the Cold War in Asia


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Online Resources Pathfinders		Web Topics Topics in the Library Catalog Library Databases A Selected Booklist Web Topics Back to Pathfinders Web Topics - Click on a Subject Heading Below Primary Sources Western Imperialism in Asia Japanese Imperialism Sino/Japanese War Pearl Harbor Allied Counterattack Nanjing Singapore Forced Labor Comfort Women Japanese Americans War Crimes/Reparations Atomic Bomb World War II Photographs The Japanese Surrender The Allied Occupation of Japan The Cold War The Soviet Union in the Cold War The Chinese Civil War (1927-49)/ Communist China Taiwan in WWII & the Cold War The Korean War The Vietnamese Conflict The Cultural Revolution in China China after the Cultural Revolution Afghanistan in the Cold War Burma/Myanmar in the Cold War Cambodia/Kampuchea/ Laos in the Cold War EastTimor/Indonesia /Philippines in the Cold War India/Pakistan /Tibet in the Cold War Japan in the Cold War Mongolia in the Cold War New Zealand/ Australia in the Cold War Posters and Propaganda Biographies Maps Timelines Primary Source Materials American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library Online access to 7 million digitized primary source items World War II: Documents The Avalon Project at Yale Japanese Monographs - Japan's involvement in WWII - Ibiblio Internet East Asian History Sourcebook at Fordham University Online primary source WWII documents Primary Documents Relating to World War II The Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings Primary documents of the Congressional hearings on the Pearl Harbor attack Legacy Project Library: World War II in Asia Emperor Hirohito's Receipt of the Surrender - Yale University The University of Oklahoma Law Center - Congressional Declaration of War on Japan Who's Winning the Cold War? Report by Congressman Morris K. Udall October 4, 1962 I.A. Benedkitov's Journal entry 2 November 1962 - Cold War International History Project - A conversation with Indian Prime Minister Nehru. I.A. Benediktov's Journal entry 12 December 1962 - Cold War International History Project - A conversation with Indian Prime Minister Nehru. Rutgers Oral History Archives: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War Western Imperialism in Asia The Western Intrusion Internet East Asian History: Fordham University Includes information on European Imperialism, British East Asia, Other Powers, United States Imperialism, and Missionary Activity. Imperialism in Asia - Wikipedia Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924) - Marx.ists.org The British Empire - Victorian Web - National University of Singapore Extent of European Colonialism in Statistical Terms - Professor Vincent Ferraro - Mt. Holyoke College East India Company History - Manas - University of California at Los Angeles The Opium Monopoly - Ellen N. La Motte -Shaffer Library of Drug Policy- druglibrary.org Imperialism in Asia - John Hobson - Imperialism: A Study. James Pott and Co.: New York. 1902 - Library of Economics and Liberty Russia's Imperial Destiny 1891- Prince Ukhtomskii - Modern History Sourcebook - Fordham University Russian Imperialism in Asia - Encyclopedia_the freedictionary.com On French Colonial Expansion 1884 - Jules Ferry - Modern History Sourcebook - Fordham University Letter to George III, 1793 - Qian Long - Modern History Sourcebook - Fordham University Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy 1898-1914- Mt. Holyoke College On Anglo-Saxon Predominance - 1891 Josiah Strong- Mt. Holyoke College The Break-up of China, and Our Interest in It, The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1899 The White Man's Burden - 1899 Rudyard Kipling: The Conquest of Civilization (selections) - 1926 James Henry Breasted - WHA Anti-Imperialism in the United States 1898-1935 - Rochester The White Man's Burden and Its Critics Jim Zwick - Rochester Vietnam Primer- French Imperialism - Centenary College of Louisiana Raja Rammohan Roy: A Second Conference Between an Advocate for, and An Opponent of the Practice of Burning Widows Alive, 1820 - Washington State University On Ritual Murder in India, 1829 - Sir William Bentinck - City University of New York Japanese Imperialism Japanese Imperialism Political Cartoon - University of California at Santa Cruz "Opening" Korea: Treaty of Kanghwa (1876) Fukuzawa Yukichi's "Datsu-A Ron" (Departing from Asia) Imperial Precepts to Soldiers and Sailors 1883 Treaty of Annexation of Korea, 1910 Theodore Roosevelt: The Threat of Japan, 1909 [At Mt. Holyoke] On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism - Mao Zedong - Marx.org Map of Japanese Colonialism top▲ Sino/Japanese War A Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War U.S. Institute of Peace, Lee Folger, the Reischauer Institute, the Harvard Asia Center, and the Fairbank Center. The People's Daily - Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Japan's 1931 invasion of Manchuria Shanghai 1937 Photographs of Karl Kengelbacher Imperial Japanese Navy Page Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbour Attack Documents 1941 Fordham University After the Day of Infamy - "Man on the street" interviews - Library of Congress Expedition Pearl Harbor National Geographic Hawaii War Records Depository - Honolulu Advertiser & Honolulu Star Bulletin - Photographs - University of Hawaii Full Pearl Harbor Casualty List Pearl Harbor: America's Darkest Day - Susan Wels The Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings Primary documents of the Congressional hearings on the Pearl Harbor attack top▲ Allied Counterattack The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color - PBS The Battle of Midway Exhibit National Security Agency Return to Midway National Geographic The Battle of Midway: Why the Japanese Lost Dallas Woodbury Isom The Naval War College Review (Summer 2000) From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa: A Time Line Pacific University Submarines in the Pacific War - University of San Diego The Pacific War - The US Navy Tim Lanzendörfer - An extensive personal site on the US Navy. Air Battles - Wake Forest University The Cornerstone of Peace (Heiwa no ishi-ji) Okinawa Prefectural Government - The Battle of Okinawa Cryptology: Navajo Code Talkers in World War II Dept.of the Navy - Navajo Code Talkers The Silent War against the Japanese Navy Captain Duane L. Whitlock, U.S. Navy, Retired Naval War College Review, Autumn 1995, Vol. XLVIII, No. 4 [monitoring Japanese naval broadcasts from the Philippines] The War in Eastern Asia - Operations in Burma: 1942-1943, Campaigns in Burma and China: 1943-1944, Recovery of Burma and Final Operations Against Japan: 1944-1945, War on the Mainland in Retrospect The Final Months of the War with Japan - CIA Olympic vs Ketsu-go - The Japanese plan to resist the invasion of Kyushu. Marine Corps Gazette, August 1965, Vol. 49, No. 8. Nanking/Nanjing Chinese document - Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing Nanking 1937 Princeton University "No More Nanjing" Association, Tokyo WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre Singapore, and the Philippines Diary of The Invasion of Singapore - WWII Papers of John Noel Douglas Harrison (1911-1980) National Library of Australia The Silent War against the Japanese Navy Captain Duane L. Whitlock, U.S. Navy, Retired Naval War College Review, Autumn 1995, Vol. XLVIII, No. 4 [monitoring Japanese naval broadcasts from the Philippines] Forced Labor and POW Camps ABCIFER- Association of British civilian internees Far East region The Center for Internee Rights, Inc. The Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society Battling Bastards of Bataan Brave Women Angell Productions - Women at war and serving peace in Oceania Interview with Director Matsui Minoru and Producer Oguri Ken'ichi of Japanese Devils: Confessions of Imperial Army Soldiers from Japan's War Against China - Asia Source Comfort Women Military Sexual Slavery by Japanese Soldiers [in Korean] Site produced by the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan. The Comfort Women Project The Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery December 2000 Tokyo [In Japanese] I'm Here Alive: History, Testimony, and the Japanese Controversy over "Comfort Women"- World History Connected - Yoshiko Nozaki, State University of New York at Buffalo top▲ Japanese Americans The Japanese American National Museum The Japanese American Citizens League National Japanese American Historical Society Japanese-Americans Internment Camps During World War II - Photographs - University of Utah Densho - The Japanese American Legacy Project - Personal narratives War Crimes/Reparations The Society to Support the Demands of Chinese War Victims (Suopei) [in Japanese] World Huaren Federation The Huaren are people of Chinese origin by birth, descent and heritage inside and outside China Center of Research and Documentation on Japan’s War Responsibility (JWRC) Japanese War Atrocities Chinese News Digest Germ Warfare Timeline - China News Digest Unit 731: History and New Evidence - The Chinese University of Hong Kong A Preliminary Review of Studies of Japanese Biological Warfare Unit 731 in the United States Tien-wei Wu at the University of New Mexico Unit 731 John Charles Andris at Wake Forest University Japanese Doctors Conducted Medical Experiments on Prisoners Rabbi Abraham Cooper - Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center The Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki The Final Months of the War with Japan CIA The 55th Anniversary of the Bombing of Japan - AsiaTODAY A-Bomb WWW Museum- Hiroshima, Japan The City of Hiroshima Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan - 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications - D. M. Giangreco Journal of Military History, 61 (July 1997): 521-82 Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb - Truman Presidential Museum & Library Enola Gay - National Air and Space Museum - Smithsonian Institution Enola Gay Exhibit Controversy - Air Force Association Nagasaki Journey - the Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata U.S. Project Trinity Report - Manhatten Project - World Wide School top▲ WWII Photographs Shanghai 1937 Photographs of Karl Kengelbacher Hawaii War Records Depository - Honolulu Advertiser & Honolulu Star Bulletin - Photographs - University of Hawaii The Pacific Theater - The Philippines Indiana State University Nagasaki Journey - the Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata Japanese-Americans Internment Camps During World War II - Photographs - University of Utah The Japanese Surrender Japanese Surrender Documents of WWII Emperor Hirohito's Receipt of the Surrender - Yale University The Allied Occupation of Japan The American Occupation of Japan - 1945- 1952 - Columbia University; New York, NY The American Occupation in Japan -Danielle Costa; April, 1997; Tufts University: Chinese and Japanese Politics MacArthur and the Japanese Occupation (1945-1951) – PBS History special Photographs, memoirs of Japanese Occupation – Ohio State University The Occupation – Indiana University; Bloomington, IN The American Occupation in Japan – Studyworld Douglas MacArthur and the American Occupation of Japan – Needham High School; Needham, Massachusetts top▲ The Cold War The Cold War - CNN The Cold War International History Project Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars The Cold War - Houghton Mifflin - The Reader's Companion to American History The Cold War Guide - Private Website Cold War in Asia - State University of New York at Suffolk Cold War in Asia - Loyola University How the Cold War Really Worked - Noam Chomsky Who's Winning the Cold War? Report by Congressman Morris K. Udall October 4, 1962 Timeline of the Cold War - Thinkquest.org The End of the Soviet Union and the Cold War - World History -fsmitha.com - A well researched personal site. Fall of the Soviet Union - The Cold War Museum - coldwar.org The Fall of the Soviet Union: Whys and Wherefores - Tom Lovell Professor of History, Tomball College presented to The Raleigh Tavern Philosophical Society Greatest Secrets of the Cold War - Jim Wilson -PopularMechanics.com The Soviet Union Internal Workings of the Soviet System - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign The Soviet Union and the United States - Soviet Archives Exhibit - Library of Congress Post War Estrangement and Soviet Perspectives - Soviet Archives Exhibit - Library of Congress Rethinking Power Politics - The Colby Reader - Colby College Khrushchev's Nuclear Promise to Beijing during the Crisis, introduction by Vladislav Zubok Cold War in Asia - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution East German Documents on the Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969, by Christian F. Ostermann Cold War in Asia - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution Mao on Sino-Soviet Relations: Two Conversations with the Soviet Ambassador - Odd Arne Westad - Cold War in Asia - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution Soviet Reactions to the Sino-Soviet Border Rift, introduction and translations by Elizabeth Wishnick - Cold War in Asia - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution The Cold War in Asia: Khabarovsk Conference Held on Russian Far East, by David Wolff Cold War in Asia - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution The Emerging Disputes Between Beijing and Moscow: Ten Newly Available Chinese Documents, 1956-1958, introduction, translations, and annotations by Zhang Shu Guang and Chen Jian - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution The Soviet Foreign Ministry Appraisal of Sino-Soviet Relations on the Eve of the Split - Mark Kramer - Cold War International History Project- Smithsonian Institution The End of the Soviet Union and the Cold War - World History -fsmitha.com - A well researched personal site. Fall of the Soviet Union - The Cold War Museum - coldwar.org The Fall of the Soviet Union: Whys and Wherefores - Tom Lovell Professor of History, Tomball College presented to The Raleigh Tavern Philosophical Society Tech Sabotage During the Cold War - Matthew French- FWC Media Group - Review of a book by Thomas Reed, a member of the National Security Council during the Reagan administration. "... contains seldom-publicized details of the intrigue and subterfuge employed to topple the Soviet Union." top▲ The Chinese Civil War (1927-49) / Communist China Chinese Civil War Overview - US Military Academy at West Point Chinese Civil War Map Handbook for the Chinese Civil War - Naval War College Republican China - University of Maryland People's Republic of China - University of Maryland Deng Xiaoping and the Cold War - Cold War International History Project Bulletin 10 - March 1998 - PDF Taiwan New Archival Evidence on Taiwanese "Nuclear Intentions", 1966-1976 Edited by William Burr October 13, 1999 National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 19 - George Washington University Taiwan Documents Project Taiwan Documents Project was established in 1999 to provide researchers and other interested persons a comprehensive source of primary material relating to the dispute over Taiwan. Taiwan's role in WWII PDF document The Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs - Clemson University. The Korean War Examining the Korean War - Pacific University Korean War Links Page - Pacific University Documents on the Korean War - Mt. Holyoke Korean War Maps - US Army Website Korean Enigma - the Korean War Classroom of the Future The Korean War - University of Redlands Stalin, Mao, Kim, and China's Decision to Enter the Korean War, Sept. 16-Oct. 15, 1950: New Evidence from Russian Archives - Alexandre Mansourov CWIHP Bulletin (USSR) Publication: Bulletin 6-7 - Cold War in Asia - Cold War International History Project New Zealand in the Korean War - New Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand The Vietnamese Conflict About the Vietnam War (1960-1975) University of Illinois The Causes of the Vietnam War The Vietnam War University of Oregon - includes photos, original documents, analysis and more Wellesley College Vietnam War Internet Links Beijing and the Vietnam Conflict, 1964-1965: New Chinese Evidence - Qiang Zhai - CWIHP Bulletin Publication: Bulletin 6-7 - Cold War in Asia - Cold War International History Project The Vietnam War and Soviet-American Relations, 1964-73: New Russian Evidence, Ilya Gaiduk CWIHP Bulletin Publication: Bulletin 6-7 - Cold War in Asia - Cold War International History Project - New Zealand and the Vietnam War - New Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand top▲ The Cultural Revolution in China Scrapbook of the Revolution - web addressess Propaganda Posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution - University of Utah Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution - China News Digest People's Republic of China (1949-present) - China News Digest Posters from the Cultural Revolution / Indiana University Quotations from Chairman Mao Cultural Revolution Decade - University of Maryland The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, 1966-1976 - San Jose State University China after the Cultural Revolution The Post-Mao Period, 1976-78 -- University of Maryland The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program - 1964-1972 - George Washington University - National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book Nixon's Trip to China - - George Washington University - National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book Afghanistan in the Cold War New Evidence on the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan - Cold War International History Project top▲ Burma/Mynamar in the Cold War Burma/Myanmar, 1948-1999- Tom Cooper - The Air Combat Information Group Burma/Mynmar Fact Sheet - Access Asia India - Burma Relations - Thin Thin Aung, Soe Myint - International IDEA Daw Aung San Suu Kyi - Dassk.org Ne Win - Leader of a Marxist military regime in Myanmar (Burma) - moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website Political and Economic History of Myanmar (Burma)- Thayer Watkins - San Jose State University Cambodia/Laos in the Cold War Cambodia Genocide Program - Yale University Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge - Thayer Watkins - San Jose State University Statistics of Cambodian Democide -Estimates, Calculations, and Sources - R.J. Rummel -The University of Hawaii Cascon Case LAO: Laos 1959-1962 - MIT Laos InfoSite- University of California at Berkeley East Timor/Indonesia/Philippines/Malaysia in the Cold War The Philippines - American Diplomacy- Southeast Asia Today Indonesia - Two Commentaries - University of North Carolina Malaya, 1948: Britain’s ‘Asian Cold War’?- Phillip Deery - New York University India/Pakistan/Tibet in the Cold War Indo-China War of 1962 - Global Security.org New East-bloc Documents on the Sino-Indian Conflict, 1959 and 1962 - Cold War International History Project I.A. Benedkitov's Journal entry 2 November 1962 - Cold War International History Project - A conversation with Indian Prime Minister Nehru. I.A. Benediktov's Journal entry 12 December 1962 - Cold War International History Project - A conversation with Indian Prime Minister Nehru. India and Pakistan -- On the Nuclear Threshold - George Washington University - National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book Remembering a War - The 1962 India-China Conflict - Rediff.com series - articles and reports offering different analyses, perspectives and narratives. 1962 Sino-Indian War, Field Marshall Military Project Tibetan Government-in-Exile in India The Tibet Museum War 1962: Taking stock, 40 years later, by Anil Athale (The Times of India) top▲ Japan in the Cold War The Japanese Red Army - Institute of Computer Technology The Japanese Red Army - FAS Federation of American Scientists A Cold War that Unleashed a Rising Sun - John Van Sant - Book Review - American Diplomacy.org Mongolia in the Cold War Parallel History Project Document Reader for the International Workshop on" Mongolia and the Cold War" Mongolia - CIA Factbook Mongolia in the 1990s: from Commissars to Capitalists? - by Morris Rossabi - Eurasianet.org New Zealand/ Australia in the Cold War New Zealand and the Cold War - New Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand Out in the Cold - Australia's Involvement in the Korean War - Significant Cold War Events - Australian War Memorial Menzies and the Great World Struggle - David Lowe - Questia.com -Online Book Australia@Cold War Guide - Private Web Site Biographies PBS -The Presidents FDR & Truman Prince Yasuhiko Asaka - Nanjing moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo - Involved in the liberation of East Timor from Indonesian regime moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website Jose Alexandre ‘Xanana’ Gusmao - Involved in the liberation of East Timor from Indonesian regime - moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website Papers of John Noel Douglas Harrison (1911-1980) National Library of Australia Hirohito - Emperor of Japan during WWII and much of the Cold War - The Simon Wiesenthal Center Jiang Qing - Wife of Mao Zedong, member of the politically powerful "Gang of Four," active during the Cultural Revolution in China.- Spartacus Educational Nikita Khrushchev - Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War - Spartacus Educational Edward Lansdale - Worked for US Intelligence during WWII and the Vietnam Conflict - Spartacus Educational Douglas MacArthur - Supreme Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area during WWII, leader of the Allied Occupation of Japan, Commander of UN forces during the Korean War - Spartacus Educational Mao Zedong - Leader of the People's Republic of China during the Cold War and the Cultural Revolution - Spartacus Educational George Marshall - Chief of Staff - leader of the US War Plans Division during WWII - Secretary of State after WWII. Developed the "Marshall Plan" - Spartacus Educational Joseph McCarthy - US Senator who was the leader of the crusade against members and alleged members of the communist party. - Spartacus Educational Ho Chi Minh - Leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnamese Conflict - Spartacus Educational Richard Nixon - President of the US during the latter part of the Vietnamese Conflict. - Spartacus Educational Pol Pot - Leader of the Kampuchean Communist Party (KCP), also known as the 'Khmer Rouge. Considered responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million people in Cambodia. moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website John Rabe - German national who rescued more than 250,000 Chinese during the 'Rape of Nanjing' - moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website Jose Ramos-Horta - Involved in the liberation of East Timor from Indonesian regime - moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website Ronald Reagan - US President during the Cold War - Spartacus Educational Syngman Rhee - President of South Korea during the Korean War - Spartacus Educational Franklin Delano Roosevelt - US President during WWII - Internet Public Library Walt Rostow - Advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson during the Vietnamese Conflict - Spartacus Educational Dean Rusk - Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson - Spartacus Educational Joseph Stalin - Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII and the early years of the Cold War - Spartacus Educational Henry L. Stimson - US Secretary of War during WWII - Spartacus Educational Adlai Stevenson - Democratic candidate for the presidency in the 1950s - Outspoken critic of Joseph McCarthy - US representative to the UN under President Kennedy - Spartacus Educational Mohamed Suharto - Leader of Indonesia during the Cold War - moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website Daw Aung San Suu Kyih - Opposition leader in Myanmar (Burma) - moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website Nguyen Van Thieu - President of South Vietnam during the Vietnamese Conflict - Spartacus Educational Le Duc Tho - A North Vietnamese leader during the Vietnamese Conflict - Spartacus Educational Harry S. Truman - President of the United States during the latter part of WWII and the ealry years of the Cold War - Spartacus Educational Wei Jingsheng - Human rights and democracy for China - moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website Ne Win - Leader of a Marxist military regime in Myanmar (Burma) - moreorless.com A private but well-researched Australian Website top▲ Posters, Cartoons and Propaganda Japanese Imperialism Political Cartoon - University of California at Santa Cruz Emperor Hirohito cartoon 1955 - William Gropper - Gropper.com Chinese Posters 1949 - 1965 - International Institute of Social History Propaganda Posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution - University of Utah Maps Map of Japanese Colonialism - University of California at Santa Cruz WWII Maps - University of Texas Bataan Peninsula map - January 31, 1942 - University of San Diego Pacific map - March 4, 1944 - University of San Diego Maps of World War II Indiana State University World War Two: Asia- Pacific - West Point Academy Chinese Civil War Map - Mathew White - Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century - Private Site Maps of the Korean War - Indiana State University Maps of the Vietnam War - Indiana State University Timelines World War II Timeline - PBS Germ Warfare Timeline - China News Digest Chinese History Timeline - University of Maryland Chronology of the Second World War - Spartacus Educational Timeline of the Cold War - Thinkquest.org Cold War Decolonization - MIT top▲