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War in China
Japan During WWII
HISTR 365
“First pictures of the Japanese occupation of Beijing,” Associated Press, 13 August 1937
Joel Legassie
The Second Sino-Japanese War
1926 Kuomintang under Chinag Kai-Shek launches “Northern Expedition” to unite China.
1927
Chinese Communists establish liberated zone around Juichin in Kiangsi Province.
1928
Murder of warlord Chang Tso-Lin by members of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
1931
Manchurian Incident and establishment of Manchuokuo
1936
Japan signs Anti-Comintern Pact with German
1937
Marco Polo Bridge incident leads to open war in China.; Temporary reconciliation of Kuomintag and Chinese Communists
1938
Battle of Nomohan, Kwantung army defeated by better equipped Soviet forces.
1939
German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
1940 Japan has 1.13 millions troops committed in China, but makes no more significant territorial gains.
1941
Japan and Russia negotiate neutrality pact.
What was the Political Situation in China before and During the War?
What were Japan's War Aims and Strategies in China?
How did the China War lead to the Pacific War?
China, 1925
5"China, 1900-1949: Warlords, 1925,” United States Military Academy Department of History, c. 1955.
China, 1931
5 "China, 1900-1949: Nationalist China, 1928-1937.” United States Military Academy Department of History, c. 1955.
Leaders
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“Iwane Matsui,” in Kazutoshi Hando et al Rekisairikugun
taisho zenran: Showa hen, Tokyo: Chūō Kōron Shinsha,
2010, 135.
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Chiang Kai-shek in Full Military
Uniform1940.
5Mao Tse-Tung, 1931
“The Organization of the Japanese
Government under the Meiji
Constitution.” Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
China, 1940
5 Japanese Occupation of China, 1940 United States Military Academy, Department of History, c. 1940.