Chiang Kai-shek and Related Topics

Joseph Stilwell

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United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II.

then-Lt. Col. Stilwell as Assistant Chief of Staff, IV Army Corps, October 1918 in France.

Gen. Frank Merrill (left) with Stilwell in Burma

Stilwell with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling

Stilwell awarding medals at Myitkyina, 1944

A bust of Stilwell at the "Former Residence of General Stilwell" Museum in Chongqing

Infuriated by the 1944 fall of Changsha to a Japanese offensive, Stilwell threatened Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek that lend-lease aid to China would be cut off which led Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley to decide Stilwell had to be replaced.

Pacific War

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The theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

Political map of the Asia-Pacific region, 1939

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Allied Commander-in-Chief in the China theater from 1942 to 1945

A mass grave of Chinese prisoners killed by the Imperial Japanese Army in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre

Chinese casualties of a mass panic during a June 1941 Japanese aerial bombing of Chongqing

USS Arizona (BB-39) burned for two days after being hit by a Japanese bomb in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Japanese aerial photo of battleship HMS Prince of Wales (top) and battlecruiser HMS Repulse under attack.

British forces surrender Singapore to the Japanese, February 1942

The Bombing of Darwin, Australia, 19 February 1942

Surrender of US forces at Corregidor, Philippines, May 1942

Dutch and Australian PoWs at Tarsau, in Thailand in 1943. 22,000 Australians were captured by the Japanese; 8,000 died as prisoners of war.

US General Douglas MacArthur, Commander of Allied forces in the South-West Pacific Area, with Australian Prime Minister John Curtin

A B-25 bomber takes off from USS Hornet (CV-8) as part of the Doolittle Raid.

The aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) explodes on 8 May 1942, several hours after being damaged by a Japanese carrier air attack.

under attack by B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers

US Marines rest in the field during the Guadalcanal campaign in November 1942.

Chinese troops during the Battle of Changde in November 1943

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and General Joseph Stilwell, Allied Commander-in-Chief in the China theatre from 1942 to 1945

Allied attack routes against the Empire of Japan

American forces landing at Rendova Island, June, 1943

The Allied leaders of the Asian and Pacific Theaters: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill meeting at the Cairo Conference in 1943

The torpedoed, as seen through the periscope of an American submarine, USS Nautilus (SS-168), in June 1942

The, the largest non-nuclear submarines ever constructed

Chinese forces on M3A3 Stuart tanks on the Ledo Road

British Indian troops during the Battle of Imphal

Marines fire captured mountain gun during the attack on Garapan, Saipan, 21 June 1944.

US Marines during mopping up operations on Peleliu, September 1944

The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and two destroyers under attack in the Battle of the Philippine Sea

The four engagements in the Battle of Leyte Gulf

General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore at Leyte

US troops approaching Japanese positions near Baguio, Luzon, 23 March 1945

British soldiers patrolling the ruins of a Burmese town during the advance on Mandalay, January 1945

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, an iconic photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945, depicts six United States Marines raising a US flag atop Mount Suribachi.

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) burns after being hit by two kamikazes. At Okinawa, the kamikazes caused 4,900 American deaths.

US Marines pass a dead Japanese soldier in a destroyed village on Okinawa, April 1945

US LVTs land Australian soldiers at Balikpapan on 7 July 1945.

American B-29 Superfortresses drop incendiary bombs over the port city of Kobe, June 1945

The mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 60,000 feet (18 km) into the air on the morning of 9 August 1945

Pacific Fleet marines of the Soviet Navy hoist the Soviet naval ensign in Port Arthur, on 1 October 1945.

Douglas MacArthur signs the formal Japanese Instrument of Surrender on USS Missouri (BB-63), 2 September 1945.

American corpses sprawled on the beach of Tarawa, November 1943

Indian prisoners of war shot and bayoneted by Japanese soldiers

IJA soldiers after a suicide charge on US Marine positions in Guadalcanal

Charred remains of civilians killed in the 10 March firebombing of Tokyo, codenamed Operation Meetinghouse, which killed an estimated 100,000 people, March 1945

Australian POW Sergeant Leonard G. Siffleet of M Special Unit being beheaded by a Japanese officer, Yasuno Chikao, on 24 October 1943. AWM photo.

A Filipino woman and child killed by Japanese forces in the Manila massacre

A young Chinese girl from a Japanese 'comfort battalion' being interviewed by a British officer. Rangoon, Burma, 1945

American stretcher party carrying a wounded soldier through a devastated Manila street, 23 February 1945

The damaged by American carrier aircraft in the Sibuyan Sea.

However, its policies of brutality toward the Chinese population, of not yielding any real power to these regimes, and of supporting several rival governments failed to make any of them a viable alternative to the Nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek.

Chung Cheng High School (Main)

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Co-educational government-aided autonomous Special Assistance Plan (SAP) secondary school in Singapore.

One of the classroom buildings of CCHMS, 琢璞楼, extending into the Chung Cheng Lake.

Chung Cheng High School was initially named after Chiang Chung-cheng, as well as from the adoption of the name of the classical Chinese philosophy work Classic of Changes.

Courtesy name

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Name bestowed upon one at adulthood in addition to one's given name.

For example, Chiang Kai-shek's given name (中正, romanized as Chung-cheng) and courtesy name (介石, romanized as Kai-shek) are both from the yù hexagram of I Ching.

House arrest

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Measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to their residence.

Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana Nikolaevna under house arrest in Tsarskoye Selo, May 1917

Zhang Xueliang, ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to be kept under house arrest after the Xi'an Incident in 1936. Even after the Nationalists' retreat to Taiwan, he remained in house arrest until Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988.

Aerial photo of the Marco Polo Bridge. Wanping Fortress is on the opposite side of the river.

Marco Polo Bridge Incident

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July 1937 battle between China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army.

Japanese forces bombarding Wanping Fortress, 1937

Damage from the Japanese shells on the wall of Wanping Fortress is marked with a memorial plaque now. The texts on the stone drums below summarizes the history of the war that followed the incident.

In a sudden volte-face, the Konoe government's foreign minister opened negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek's government in Nanking and stated: "Japan wants Chinese cooperation, not Chinese land."

Ho Chi Minh

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Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman.

A 1920 security report by the French Indochinese government on Nguyễn Tất Thành listing his aliases, places of residence, his father's occupation, as well as other information.

Commemorative plaque in Haymarket in London

Hồ Chí Minh, 1921, going by the pseudonym Nguyễn Ái Quốc, attending a Communist congress in Marseille, France.

A plaque in Compoint Lane, District 17, Paris indicates where Hồ Chí Minh lived from 1921 to 1923

Ho Chi Minh worked as a cook all over the world from 1911 to 1928, also in Milano. This plaque in Via Pasubio, on the left next to "Antica Trattoria Della Pesa", remembers one of his workplaces.

House on Memorium for Hồ Chí Minh in Ban Nachok, Nakhon Phanom, Thailand

Hồ Chí Minh (third from left, standing) with the OSS in 1945

Võ Nguyên Giáp (left) with Hồ Chí Minh (right) in Hanoi in 1945

Effigies of Charles de Gaulle and Hồ Chí Minh are hanged by students during a demonstration in Saigon, July 1964, observing the tenth anniversary of the July 1954 Geneva Agreements

Hồ Chí Minh with East German sailors in Stralsund harbor during his 1957 visit to East Germany

Hồ Chí Minh with members of the East German Young Pioneers near Berlin, 1957

Hồ Chí Minh holding his god-daughter, baby Elizabeth (Babette) Aubrac, with Elizabeth's mother, Lucie, 1946

Hồ Chí Minh watching a football game in his favorite fashion, with his closest comrade Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng seated to Ho's left (photo right)

Hồ Chí Minh statue and a yellow star as depicted in the Vietnamese flag

Hồ Chí Minh statue outside Hồ Chí Minh City Hall, Hồ Chí Minh City

Temple devoted to Nguyễn Sinh Sắc, Hồ Chí Minh's father

Ho Chi Minh pictured with children in a photo by state media

After Chiang Kai-shek's 1927 anti-Communist coup, Quốc (Ho) left Canton again in April 1927 and returned to Moscow, spending part of the summer of 1927 recuperating from tuberculosis in Crimea before returning to Paris once more in November.

Example of a Nuo tai on the Paifang at the Cihu Presidential Burial Place in Taiwan. It reads (from right to left) "President (space) Honorable Chiang's Mausoleum"

Tai tou

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Typographical East Asian expression of honor that can be divided into two forms, Nuo tai and Ping tai.

'永懷領袖文物展視室' (Example of such a space used before the word '領袖', here referring to Chiang Kai-shek)

This is also sometimes still used in Taiwan for important officials, such as Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen, although this practice has gradually fallen out of favor.