After the WW I ended and Treaty of Versailles laid down the terms of peace, Germany's colonial holdings in pacific and east Asia were handed to Japan. This triggered a series of Japanese high handedness and atrocities against several countries and territories in East Asia who suffered because of Japan's imperialistic designs. Countries effected were China, Korea, Manchuria, Philippines and Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).
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In World War I, the Japanese joined the Allies for a time, and fought the German army in east Asia.
The Caucacus Mountains near the Black and Caspian Sea in Europe is the Western boundary line that separates Europe from Asia (or separates the West from the East). South of that line is SOUTHWEST Asia (Turkey, Israel, Jordon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. areas that are mis-named the "middle east"). To the right of this is the real MIDDLE EAST, "Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, etc." To the right of this is SOUTHEAST Asia, Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. Britain mis-named the middle east during their colonial days when they considered themselves the center of world power; measuring all colonies from Great Britain. The closest Asian country to England was Turkey; Therefore it was called ASIA MINOR. Today's mis-named "middle east" was between ASIA MINOR and INDIA (Britain's other colony) therefore those nations were called the MIDDLE EAST, because they were in the middle. East means Orient, so the words can be intermingled. Southwest Asia can be called the FAR EAST or FAR ORIENT.
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The Mongoloid race is the Asian race. It includes people from North Asia, East Asia, American Indians and Eskimos.
The battles of World War Two took place all over the world: Europe, the Pacific, China and Southeast Asia, Middle East, the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Atlantic and even in North and South America.