>Так в составе какого друго независмого государства она участвовали в войне? Или они в ней не участвовали? Или участвовали самостоятельно?
Участвовали как союзник Америки, как государство, готовящееся стать самостоятельным.
Japanese aggression in China prompted much attention to military preparedness. Nearly one-fourth of the national budget was devoted to defense. General Douglas MacArthur, retiring as army chief of staff in Washington, was called by President Quezon to direct plans and preparations. Meanwhile, agrarian unrest festered, and leftist political activity grew. Quezon pushed significant reform legislation through the National Assembly, but implementation was feeble, despite the rapid accumulation of power in his hands.
The Japanese attack of Dec. 8, 1941, came at a time when the U.S. military buildup had hardly begun. Before Christmas, Manila was declared an “open city,” while Quezon and Osmeña were evacuated to MacArthur's headquarters on Corregidor. Despite a desire, at one point, to return to Manila in order to surrender, Quezon was persuaded to leave the Philippines in March on a U.S. submarine; he was never to return. Osmeña also went. Filipino and American forces, under General Jonathan M. Wainwright, surrendered in May 1942. An Executive Commission, made up of more than 30 members of the old Filipino political elite, had been cooperating with Japanese military authorities in Manila since January.
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