Word: ryukyu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trusteeship over the Japanese Ryukyu and Bonin Islands (including Okinawa...
...Iron Hand. In sharp contrast, Acheson then staked out a second Asian area in tougher language. The nation's defense, said he, rests on a North Pacific frontier running along the Aleutian Islands to Japan and down through the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to the Philippines. In case of attack on this line, he said, the U.S. would defend all these positions. (For Korea, hanging perilously close to the most naked of Russian ambitions, the Secretary offered only a vaguer acknowledgment of "responsibility...