![]() To Chongqing, which became China's capital for the next seven Of Nanking, Chiang and many of his advisors flew Leaving General Tang Shengzhi in charge of the city for the Battle Headquarters ordered the Central China Area Army and the 10th Army to capture Nanking, then the capital of Mid-November the Japanese had captured the city with help of naval bombardment.ĭecided not to expand the war due to heavy casualties incurred and the low Was bloody as both sides faced attrition in urban hand-to-hand combat. Followingįormally started the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese were swift in capturingĪugust of 1937, the Japanese army faced strong resistance and suffered heavyĬasualties in the Battle of Shanghai, effectivelyĭestroying the possibility of conquering China in three months. The largest army in the world at the time in terms of troop numbers. Despite their difficulties, it is likely that China fielded However, the Chinese army was poorly trained andĮquipped: some regiments were armed primarily with swords and hand grenades andįew had anti-tank weaponry. The KMT then formally started an all-out defenseĪgainst the Japanese threat. However, in 1937, following the Xi'an Incident, the Chinese communists and nationalistsĪgreed to form a united front. Because the Communists and the KuomintangĬivil War they were distracted from the reality of Japanese advances. ![]() The Mukden Incident in 1931, Japan began its invasion of Manchuria, China. (photographed by Murase Moriyasu, of the 17th Motorized Company of the Heaps of dead bodies wait for disposal on the wharves of Hsiakwan, the port suburb north of Nanking. Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, which is near Nanking and already existed at (now called Nanjing), at that time the capital of China, after it fellĭr. 南京大虐殺, Nankin Daigyakusatsu), also known as the Rape of Nanking and sometimes in Japan as the Nanking Incident ( 南京事件, Nankin Jiken), refers to the widespread atrocitiesĬommitted by the Imperial Japanese Army in and around Nanking The Nanking Massacre ( Simplified Chinese: 南京大屠杀 Traditional Chinese: 南京大屠殺, pinyin: Nánjīng Dàtúshā Japanese:
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