Roosevelt, decided to push back against Japanese intentions. The United States, under President Franklin D.
Britain found itself entangled in a war for survival with Hitler’s Germany. Yet China continued to resist, with some unofficial assistance from the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain, hoping that a foreign power might come to its rescue.īy 1941, it was becoming increasingly clear that Japan intended to dominate all of East Asia. It looked to many as if China would have to surrender and accept peace on Japanese terms. The Chinese Communists held out in their base in northwest China.
The Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang) government under its leader Chiang Kai-shek had to move to the interior as the Japanese invaded the great cities of the East, such as Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing, committing many atrocities against the local populations along the way. The war between China and Japan was at first a conflict in which no western powers were openly involved. On that date, outside of Beijing, Japanese and Chinese troops clashed, and within a few days, the local conflict had escalated to a full, though undeclared, war between China and Japan. World War II began on July 7, 1937-not in Poland or at Pearl Harbor, but in China. The war ended in Asia only with the atomic bombings of Japan, but the continent failed to find peace as new Cold War conflicts emerged from the rubble. Top image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, 520868.īetween 19, war raged between Japan and its enemies, first China, and then the United States and the British Empire.
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