Data
Name: hong kong
Type: Cluster
Start: 1841 AD
End: 2022 AD
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hong kong
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Establishment
Chronology
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1. Century of humiliation
A period (1839-1949) of foregin interventions in China resulting in the occupation, conquest or lease of large territories by foregin countries.
Were two wars between Qing China and the Western powers. The first war was caused by the Chinese prohibition against opium trafficking by British merchants, and the conflicts took their name from this fact.
Was a war between Qing China and the British Empire whose immediate cause was the Chinese prohibition against opium trafficking by British merchants. At the end of the war Hong Kong Island (part of modern-day Hong Kong) was ceded to Britain.
Was an agreement between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty during the First Opium War.
During the XIX and XX century China was forced into treaties with foreign powers that established concessions (factually enclaves) in its territory.
2. World War II
Was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 (it started sooner in certain regions) between the Axis Powers (mainly Germany, Japan and Italy) and the Allies (mainly the Soviet Union, the U.S.A., the U.K., China and France). It was the war with more fatalities in history. The war in Asia began when Japan invaded China on July 7, 1937. The war in Europe began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The war ended with the complete defeat of the Axis powers, which were occupied by the Allies.
2.1.World War II (Asia & Pacific)
Was the East Asian, South Asian and Pacific theatre of World War II.
Was a Japanese military campaign against the British colony of Hong Kong that ended with Japanaese occupation.
2.1.2.Japanese Surrender (World War II)
Were the evacuation of the Japanese forces from occupied territories after the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan.
