Japan invades China (jul 11, 1937 – jan 1, 1938)
Description:
July: Japan attacks China- during the Chinese Civil War
- where Maotse Dung (communists) fights Chiang (nationalists)
- causes civil war to pause
November: Shanghai falls
December: Nanking Massacre (Rape of Nanking)
- mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens & capture soldiers
- and systematic raping then killing of women
- by the Japanese Imperial Army
- death toll of 200,000 to 300,000
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Date:
jul 11, 1937
jan 1, 1938
~ 5 months and 24 days