Taiwan was returned to China [ MISC ]

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Taiwan was returned to China [ MISC ]

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In accordance with the Cairo declaration of 1943 and the Potsdam Conference of 1945, Taiwan was returned to China as a province after the war.
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China gave Taiwan to Japan in 1895 as part of a war settlement, but took the island back in 1945, after World War II.

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In accordance with the Cairo Declaration of 1943 and the Potsdam Proclamation of 1945, Taiwan was restored to China in September 1945.

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Re: Taiwan was returned to China [ MISC ]

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In 1943 the Allied Powers had agreed that Taiwan would be placed under Chinese rule with victory in the Pacific; at the time, Chinese rule meant the Republic of China, led by Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) and his Nationalist (guomingdang or KMT) party.


Taipei
City of Displacements
page 9

by Joseph R. Allen
University of Washington Press
Seattle, Washington
2012

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