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b'Ronald H. Spector, Professor Emeritus of History at George Washington University and author of A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955, joins the show to discuss the fall of Japan, the spread of Communism, and the role of the United States in postwar Asia.\\n\\u25aa\\ufe0f\\nTimes\\xa0\\n\\u2022\\t01:34\\xa0Introduction\\n\\u2022\\t05:57 No clear plan\\n\\u2022\\t08:30 The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere\\n\\u2022\\t10:51 The Indian National Army\\xa0\\n\\u2022\\t12:12 Marines in North China\\xa0\\n\\u2022\\t15:49 Levels of violence\\n\\u2022\\t17:24 Was 1949 preventable?\\n\\u2022\\t22:32 U.S. attitudes towards Korea\\xa0\\n\\u2022\\t26:25 Kim Il-sung\\n\\u2022\\t28:17 Ho Chi Minh goes to Moscow\\n\\u2022\\t31:08 Stopping the spread of communism\\xa0\\n\\u2022\\t33:03 Reconstruction\\xa0\\n\\u2022\\t35:09 Post 1955'