between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major theatres...

on China in 1915. These demands forced China to acknowledge Japanese possession of the former German holdings and its economic dominance of Manchuria, and...

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany...

with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC...

(Peace Agreement between the Great Powers and China), and China, not by the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Treaty of Shimonoseki was a dispositive treaty. Therefore...

commander-in-chief of the Republic of China, was willing to cede Manchuria to Japan and mentioned the concept of China proper when asking for support from the empire...

the impression they might be willing to mediate, the Soviets were covertly preparing to attack Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea (in addition to...

China, which led to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the Second Sino-Japanese War; or Italian aggression against Ethiopia. During the interwar period...

international agreements—the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895 and the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910—and at the time, they were considered integral parts of the...

(CCP) won the Chinese Civil War on 1 October 1949. During the Chinese Civil War, the CCP was struggling to make gains in South Manchuria. Due to North Korea's...