WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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China
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Britain
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Japan
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France
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hong Kong–a small peninsula and group of islands jutting out from China’s Kwangtung province–was leased by China to Great Britain in 1898 for 99 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941.
Detailed explanation-3: -The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China was at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War.
Detailed explanation-5: -During the Ming and Qing dynasty, Hong Kong remained under the governance of Xin’an County (renamed from Bao’an County), before it was colonised by the British. As a military outpost and trading port, Hong Kong’s territory gained the attention of the world.