The Cairo Declaration
27th November 1943: Roosevelt and Churchill agree their war aims for Japan with the Chinese nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek
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Historians1 are now increasingly taking the view that we should see World War II as a conflict beginning in 1931.
The Japanese invasion of China beginning in 1931 unleashed a bloody confl…
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