What’s the context? VJ Day, 15 August 1945

We call upon the Government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith...
We call upon the Government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith...
...if Japan did not surrender.4 A proclamation was issued on 26 July 1945 calling on Japan to surrender. Though the Japanese Supreme War Council sought Russian mediation, this was rejected...
...Britain’s rivals in Asia. Japan’s nationalist and military leaders, with an ever-tightening grip on policy, saw the Treaties as part of attempts to ‘box in’ Japan. Subsequently, Japan threatened the...
...Germany, for a ‘World Organisation’ to ensure peace (the UN), for bringing the war in Japan to a successful conclusion and for the future of Eastern Europe, have been instrumental...
...entered an agreement with Japan and in 1904 established the Entente Cordiale with France. From the British perspective, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was created partly with the aim of preventing Russian...
...by Hitler’s march into Prague, struggled to get Congressional approval for the amendment of isolationist legislation. The military party in Japan accused Britain of supporting China in the Sino-Japanese war...
...but in the final analysis Mussolini was bound to support Hitler. Japan Japan was also allied to Germany and Italy, and had been engaged on a brutal and destructive war...
...Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, General Eisenhower was to secure Soviet help in beating Japan, not to get to Berlin before the Red Army. At the Malta Conference of the...
...non-intervention had failed. The Far Eastern Context The outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in July 1937 threatened British interests, particularly in China. Japanese policy was to dominate mainland China before...
...Japan and Australia. Wilson needed time to recover from the long journey, considering the precarious state of his health. He also needed the opportunity to talk with other leaders prior...