Dutch East Indies, one of the overseas territories of the Netherlands until December 1949, now Indonesia. This territory was made up of Sumatra and adjacent islands, Java with Madura, Borneo (except for North Borneo, which is now part of Malaysia and of
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, was the Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies ...
ww2dbaseThe Allied forces were headed up by Royal Netherlands East Indies Army General Hein Ter Poorten, with 25,000 Indonesian under his command; although the number was impressive, most of the men were poorly trained. The Dutch forces were divided up so that two regiments guarded the Jakarta...
Dutch East Indies- a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions Indonesia,Republic of Indonesia ...
[Map] Map showing Japanese offensives in the Dutch East Indies, Dec 1941-Apr 1942 | World War II Database
forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in 1945.Following on from MAA 521Royal NetherlandsEast Indies Army 1936–42and completing the coverage of the post-World War II wars of decolonization,The Dutch–Indonesian War 1945–49...
In subject area: Computer Science The Dutch East Indies refers to the territories in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Malay Peninsula and Java, that were under Dutch control in the nineteenth century. AI generated definition based on: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences...
Kingdom of the Netherlands (1918-1940) Armored Car – 1 Built The First World War was the first war in history in which armored vehicles were used in significant numbers, by all sides. The Netherlands, as a neutral country, only observed from the sideline. However, in 1914, one Belgian ...
from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II. When the Nazis began the forced relocation of Dutch Jews, he went into hiding, but was later arrested and saved only by the end of the war. He then served as an ...
India, and theEast Indies. For almost a century thereafter, relative calm in empire building reigned as the result of a strong reaction against imperialism. Then the decades between the middle of the 19th century andWorld War I(1914–18) were again characterized by intense imperialistic policies...