Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Bix, 2000)
1940 · Resource
Herbert Bix's Pulitzer-winning biography reassessing Emperor Hirohito's role in Japan's war.
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- World War II (1939)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)