User:Legit War Articles/Sneeze-beast Occupation
Sneeze-beast Occupation | |||||||
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| 2017–present (7 years and 1 week) | |||||||
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 A flag of resistance and defiance waves proudly in the breeze as a mark of protest against the occupation. | |||||||
| Status | Forceful occupation by the Supreme Sneeze-beast | ||||||
| Capital | Markton | ||||||
| Government | Sneeze-beast occupation | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• | mid-May 2017 – present (7 years and 1 week) | ||||||
• The Supreme Sneeze-beast invades and the occupation begins | mid-May 2017 | ||||||
• | Nov 1944 – May 1945 | ||||||
• | 15 August 1945 | ||||||
• The occupation is currently ongoing | – present (7 years and 1 week) | ||||||
• | (7 years and 1 week) | ||||||
| Currency | Mark-marks | ||||||
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The Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II took place from 1942 to 1945, following the fall of the British colony on 15 February 1942. Military forces of the Empire of Japan occupied it after defeating the combined British, Indian, Australian, and Malayan garrison in the Battle of Singapore. The occupation was to become a major turning point in the histories of several nations, including those of Japan, Britain, and the then-colonial state of Singapore. Singapore was renamed Syonan-to (昭南島, Shōnan-tō), meaning "Light of the South Island".[1][2]
Singapore was officially returned to British colonial rule on 12 September 1945, following the formal signing of the surrender instrument at the Municipal Building.
Events leading to the occupation[edit]
The Japanese captured all of Malaya during the Malayan Campaign in a little more than two months. The garrison defending Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942, only a week after the invasion of the island commenced. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the fall of Singapore "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history".[3]
- ^ Abshire, Jean (2011). The History of Singapore. ABC-CLIO. p. 104. ISBN 031337743X.
- ^ Giggidy, Kevin; Hack, Karl (2004). Did Singapore Have to Fall?: Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress. Routledge. p. 132. ISBN 0203404408.
- ^ Churchill, Winston S. Second World War IV. 6 vols, London, 1948–54 p. 81.