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The Verzetsmuseum (Dutch Resistance Museum) in Amsterdam says the Police Action only ended after the United States leaned heavily on the Dutch to grant Indonesia independence. The Dutch responded with the Police Actions, or Politinele acties, a polite euphemism for a war of occupation that killed anywhere between 70,000 and 200,000 Indonesians in revenge. Indonesian nationalists took advantage of the confusion by launching an uprising to declare independence, resulting in the murder of thousands of Dutch civilians (via NOS). As Inside Indonesia notes, the Japanese surrender resulted in a short window of time when Japanese authorities were still in charge of Indonesia, but the war was over. When Japan entered the war, they quickly seized the country, occupying it from 1942 to 1945. An overview of World War II from the Treaty of Versailles 1919 to the Treaty of Rome 1957 suitable for school and college courses dealing with the rise of Hi. Devastating air raids (alone the first firebombing raid on Tokyo during the night of 9/10 March 1945 claimed an estimated 100,000 lives) had razed. Marshall called for a European Recovery Plan for war torn Europe. invasions of Iwo Jima in February and Okinawa in April had brought the Pacific War to the Japanese Home Islands’ doorsteps. In an address to the Harvard graduating class on June 5, 1947, General George C. The price for this help would have been the commitment of the freed prisoners to go and fight Franco in Spain. Overview: Japan in Early 1945 The spring of 1945 found the Japanese Empire in a desperate situation. However, in 1946, a Dutch newspaper mentioned it in connection with a number of escapes that took place in the SLUIS region at that time. Prior to World War II, Indonesia had been a Dutch colony. Emile DEJEHANSART 11:54 AM The hypothesis may seem surprising. After the destruction of World War II and the Liberation came the formidable task of rebuilding Europe.