IMPORTANT HISTORICAL MOMENTS OF ASIA THAT LED TO GREATER TRANSFORMATION!
Several historic moments that shaped Asia!
History has recorded unbelievable happenings of Asia in the past decades.
The world has been through several hard times and still trying to heal itself by making peace. Meanwhile, every continent has its own story to tell and history has been doing its duty by recording it. Though history is subjective, we assume it as an objective one. However, we still believe history as it has the true side of the ancient happenings and has recorded it. The narration of what Asia is now and its past would be portrayed better in history. The emerging economic power of Asia has been one of the most engrossed as well as focused historical moments of Asia. Countries have participated in different momentary moments and thus emerged as a better and powerful one according to economic power. Both Japan and China are adding feathers to their flocks by raising their economy. Did you know Asia is the fastest growing economic region in the whole world? Well, with its 60% of the world population, Asia has been emerging with the power which has not been a piece of cake. So, below are some of the most resulting moments of Asia’s last century.
PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE (1919): The Paris Peace Conference and its famous Treaty of Versailles were the cues to the end of the First World War. As a result of the conference, both China and Vietnam became socialist nations and Japan towards WWII. Meanwhile, both Chinese and Vietnamese had welcomed the new world order brought in by American president Woodrow Wilson along with his ideas about national self-determination and new diplomacy. The future Vietnamese leader named Ho Chi-Minh decided to put forth his words in the Paris Peace Conference and proposed about Vietnam’s autonomy. But his proposal was not accepted by the world powers and he turned Vietnam into a socialist nation. China was also left out over the problem of the foreign concession of Shandong province. Does not it sound like learning history again? However, Japan positioned as a major regional power in Asia at the cost of China and thus disappointment and exasperation made its way to a massive demonstration in Beijing against the foreign intervention in 1919.
JAPANESE SURRENDER (1945): History has marked that Japan had been the “geopolitical tiger” of Asia right from the beginning of its open in the 19th century and till the day it was defeated in 1945. However, the fall of Japan made a new start for another regional dominance. It was no other than Americans itself and became powerful right after the fall of Japanese.
PARTITION OF INDIAN SUBCONTINENT (1947): This must have been the biggest and most remarkable partition in history ever. Right after the struggle of getting independence, it was the ghastly partition of the place which makes ever more terrific. After the tragic end of the Second World War, Britain lost the resources needed to control one of its colonies named India. When the British were pushed out of India in 1947, the country started to divide according to one thing – religion. And then there was this huge migration of mankind happened where Muslims turned to West and East Pakistan or Bangladesh whereas Hindus and Sikhs turned marched in the opposite direction. As a result, India and Pakistan emerged and took their own paths.
COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION (1991): Remember this aggressive Soviet Union of the world? With the rise of the Cold War, China and the Soviet Union were known to be allies. Howbeit, both China and the United States were showed up together because they were together concerned about the threat to China and the rest of Asia from the Soviet Union which was written by US President Richard Nixon about the Cold War. Meanwhile, the defeat of the Soviet Union in 1991 had infused the reforms established by Mikhail Gorbachev. Evidently, the fall of the USSR resulted in the failure of the communist experiment which had been spread all over Asia back in the twentieth century.
CHINA AND INDIA OPEN UP (1978, 1991): The most impactful events that happened in the history of Asia. China itself developed and achieved economically which would even overtake the economy of the United States. By this time, India’s economy was known as the infamous License Raj which was because of the drop in the economy level. Later, Manmohan Singh, the Finance Minister of India at that period established cash reserves, dismantled a stifling bureaucracy and then opened the economy up to foreign investment and that was how India developed on its own economically. India is now known to be one of the largest in the world and its growth is now an example for many other countries. Presently, it is as per the decisions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who would follow his predecessor or focus on new implements to develop India’s economy.
