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The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the Malay Operation (馬来作戦, Maree Sakusen), was a military campaign fought by Allied and Axis forces in Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 15 February 1942 during the Second World War.
The Fourteen Days' War (Malay: Perang 14 Hari), also known as the Parang Panjang War (Malay: Perang Parang Panjang), refers to the violent persecution by the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) of Malays and Indians who had supported the Japanese occupation of Malaya and Chinese supporters of the Kuomintang in August 1945.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war .
IOI develops real estate and makes property investments in commercial, hospitality and leisure, launching its maiden 930-acre Bandar Puchong Jaya township in 1990. [3] IOI announced a demerger of its property business in 2013, [11] and relisted it as IOI Properties Group Berhad on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia on 15 January 2014.
Malaysia in World War II; B. Battle of Kota Bharu; J. Japanese government–issued dollar in Malaya and Borneo This page was last edited on 21 February 2024, at ...
Leaders in Japan had long had an interest in the idea. The outbreak of World War II fighting in Europe had given the Japanese an opportunity to demand the withdrawal of support from China in the name of "Asia for Asiatics", with the European powers unable to effectively retaliate. [4]
With the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe in 1939, earlier plans for the expansion and reinforcement of British forces in the Far East were accelerated. Initial expansion was slow and patchy due to the reluctance of the War Office in London to transfer forces from Great Britain for fear of a German invasion of Britain.
Naval Base Borneo and Naval Base Dutch East Indies was a number of United States Navy Advance Bases and bases of the Australian Armed Forces in Borneo and Dutch East Indies during World War II. At the start of the war, the island was divided in two: British Borneo and Dutch East Indies.