The Marco Polo Bridge Incident. (1937)
Japan captured Beijing and Shanghai. (1937)
The Nanjing Massacre. (1937) Mass murder,
war crimes: 20.000 women were raped
(estimation of the International Military Tribune for the Far East)
80.000 rapes (estimation of Yale University).
The Battle of Wuhan (1938) was a Japanese victory.
The Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
was signed in 1937.
But Soviet Union was with the Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang…
Chinese victories in Changsha and Guangxi. (1939)
The war reached a stalemate.
Chinese guerilla warfare.
Japanese occupation of Nanning.
In 1939, Chinese nationalist forces launched
a large scale winter offensive.
CCP made an offensive in central China in 1941.
The attack on Pearl Harbor. (1941)
The Operation Ichi-Go in 1944 was a Japanese victory.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.(1945)
Japan formally surrendered on September 1945.
China was recognized as one of the Big Four Allies.
China became one of the five permanent members
of United Nations Security Council in 1945.