What were these people doing? I know parts of it was captured by Japan but what countries fought, what countries was on the Allied side, the Axis side, or neutral.
By SouthEast Asia, do you mean the Indian subcontinent or the Middle East?
India was part of the British Empire, and produced the largest volunteer army of WW2 (over 2 million men). The Middle East was largely under allied military occupation.
No, I think he means Indochina. Thialand was with Japan only to save itself from being invaded by Japan. Burma and French Indochina, along with Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, were conquered by Japan for their resources. The Philippines and parts of China were conquered by the Japanese as well. Many Ocianian island groups were taken for, in my opinion, no particular reason. All of the countries conquered by Japan were with the Allies for obvious reasons.
Yeah, I meant what Churchill said, I think I messed the title up a little. How bout Indonesia, did it get conqured too for no perticulur reason?
Indonesia, which was then known as the Dutch East Indies, was one of the main targets (if not The main target) of the Japanese in Southeast Asia. The Japanese wanted and needed the oil.
See also:
KNIL (Royal Netherlands Indies Army)
Netherlands East Indies and the KNIL (Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger or Royal Netherlands Indies Army), the Dutch colonial army in the Netherlands East Indies (present day Indonesia).
http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2936
I believe that Indonesia also had rubber, and maybe tin. Not sure though.
Yes, I believe Indonesia had sources of rubber, oil, and tin and rice if your hungry
That is correct guys 
More bits of information:
Dutch East Indies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_east_indies
Statistics Indonesia
http://www.bps.go.id/index.shtml
Oil, natural gas, coal, bauxite, nickel ore, gold, silver, granite, iron, tin, copper.
CIA - The World Factbook - Indonesia
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/id.html
Natural resources:
petroleum, tin, natural gas, nickel, timber, bauxite, copper, fertile soils, coal, gold, silver.
Also produced coffee and tea:
Indonesian coffee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_coffee
Indonesia is currently the fourth largest producer of coffee in the world. Coffee has a colourful history, and has played an important part in the growth of the country. Indonesia is blessed with an ideal geography for coffee growing. The longitude and latitude of the country means that the island origins are all well suited micro-climates for the growth and production of coffee.
Origins
In early days, the prominent coffee under Dutch rule was Arabica. The coffee was introduced to the archipelago via Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka). The Dutch Colonial Government initially planted coffee around Batavia (Jakarta), and as far south as Sukabumi and Bogor, in the 17th century. Coffee plantations were also established in East Java, Central Java, West Java and in parts of Sumatra and Sulawesi…
Tea and Indonesia
http://www.teauction.com/industry/indonestea.asp
Tea has been part of the way of life in Indonesia for more than 200 years. The Dutch founded the tea trade in Indonesia in the 1700s. The industry went into decline after the 2nd World War. In 1984, Indonesia’s tea industry was revived after decades of isolation. After much effort and investment, tea exports from Indonesia began to make their presence felt in the tea market. Since then, constant improvement and modernisation of tea production and replanting of old estates have continued to this day…
British Malaya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Malaya
CIA - The World Factbook - Malaysia
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/my.html
Natural resources:
tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite
Also produced rubber and tea:
Rubber from Malaya
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,932934,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
When the Japanese took Singapore and the Dutch East Indies they captured 90% of the world’s supply of crude rubber. Americans felt the pinch in tire and gasoline rationing; the U.S. Army needed all the rubber that could be had and more besides, which was to be produced in many new synthetic-rubber plants. Malaya as a rubber source was written off.
But all Malayan rubber was not lost to the U.S. Last week it was learned that a small trickle has begun to come to U.S. ports once more—via Japan and Russia. Tokyo, saddled with a mountainous surplus, sells it to the Soviet Union; Russia again trades it for U.S. war goods which she needs to fight Japan’s allies in Europe. Some day Malayan rubber from Japan might roll again down Singapore’s wide streets under the U.S. flag. Meanwhile, the world had another example of a paradox of international war and commerce: how to trade, at second hand, with the enemy.
BOH Plantations Sdn. Bhd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOH_Plantations_Sdn._Bhd.
BOH Plantations Sdn. Bhd. is the largest black tea manufacturer in Malaysia. The BOH Tea Plantation, which is located at Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia is also the largest tea plantation in Malaysia.
Philippines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines
CIA - The World Factbook - Philippines
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rp.html
Natural resources:
timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, salt, copper.
French Indochina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina
French colonial empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire
Historical and Political Maps of French Indochina
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/seasia/haxfrindochina.html
Parallel and Divergent Aspects of British Rule in the Raj, French Rule in Indochina, Dutch Rule in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), and American Rule in the Philippines
by David Steinberg
http://www.houseofdavid.ca/frnlus.htm
And the people who introduced coffe to the dutch are the Ethiopians, who knew a small harvest back then becomes one of the most drank beverage in the world other than water, coke, and tea
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The World of Coffee
History of Coffee Regions
http://www.coffeetraders.com/world_of_coffee.cfm
Ethiopia was the birthplace of the natural, wild, arabica coffee bean–discovered around 500AD. Ethiopian coffees have a wild and winey character ranging from the floral, wineyness of the Harrars in eastern Ethiopia to the fragrant, spicy Yrgacheffes in the south. Harrar and Ghimbi are the most fragrant, while Yrgacheffe, Sidamo, and Limu are more wild. The heritage of Ethiopian coffees is unsurpassed.
The Arab traders brought coffee to their homeland at the end of the first millennium AD. There, the wild plant was cultivated for the first time. In 1600AD, the Dutch stole a coffee tree from the Arabian port of Mocha, Ethiopia, and carried it to the Indonesian island of Java. Thus began the Indonesian line of coffees.
Indonesian coffees are heavey-bodied and earthy with a mellow smoothness. The lush volcanic soils of Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Timor and Papua New Guinea yield a variety of complex coffees. At this point in history, coffee was available either from the port of Mocha or from Java–hence the famous blend of “Mocha-Java”. The most exotic, earthy example of Indonesian coffee comes from the island of Sulawesi, formerly Celebes. Many of our favorite dark roasts are Indonesian coffees, particularly our Golden Aged Sumatran–a perfect complement to any meal.
At the beginning of the 18th Century, Louis XIV of France was an avid coffee drinker. The Dutch owed him a favor and managed to procure him a coffee tree. He turned the tree over to his botanist who constructed the first greenhouse in Europe to house his tree. Billions of arabica trees sprouted from Louis XIV’s tree. Seeds were sent to Surinam, north of Brazil in 1714. Thus began the American variety of coffees.
From Brazil to Mexico, tropical America offers a varied and excellent selection of coffees including mild, medium-bodies, bright and snappy varieties.
By 1900AD, coffee had made its way around the world and back to the African countries of Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Burundi. African coffees have a sharp character similar to the milder Ethiopian coffees and due to their shared African soil, moisture and climate. These coffees have an aromatic quality and a lively acidity.
Coffee Traders always carries arabica coffee from the four growing regions of Ethiopia, Indonesia, America and Africa.
History of coffee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee
Origins of coffee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_coffee
Mocha was also the main port for the one sea route to Mecca to Europe, Coffee though traded with Europeans, the Arabs had a strict policy not to export any fertile beans, so that coffee could not be cultivated anywhere else. The coffee bean is the seed of the coffee tree, but when stripped of its outer layers it becomes infertile.
Dutch coffee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_coffee#Dutch_coffee
The race among Europeans to make off with some live coffee trees or beans was eventually won by the Dutch in the late 17th century, when they allied with the natives of Kerala against the Portuguese and brought some live plants back from Malabar to Holland, where they were grown in greenhouses. The Dutch began growing coffee at their forts in Malabar, India, and in 1699 took some to Batavia in Java, in what is now Indonesia.
Within a few years the Dutch colonies (Java in Asia, Surinam in Americas) had become the main suppliers of coffee to Europe
The blessed bean
http://harowo.com/2006/06/19/1377/
History of coffee
http://harowo.com/2006/03/17/history-of-coffee/