Rise of China - Battle for Survival

Summary by Krater

This video details the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945, covering major military campaigns, the alliance between Nationalists and Communists, the devastating human toll, and the escalation into the Chinese Civil War following Japan's defeat.

From the video

Answers: What happened during the Second Sino-Japanese War?

• Second Sino-Japanese War
• Battle of Shanghai
• Nanking Massacre
• Operation Ichi-Go
• Chinese Civil War
• World War II in China

What it concludes

• Chiang Kai-shek's strategy was to buy time to eliminate his internal communist enemies first.
• The Marco Polo Bridge incident marked the start of all-out war with Japan.
• The Battle of Shanghai became a major battlefront involving a million troops and ending in heavy Chinese losses and a retreat.
• The Nanking Massacre resulted in the mass killing of tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners of war by Japanese forces.
• Operation Ichi-Go was a major Japanese offensive that weakened Chinese forces and destroyed several US airfields.
• The Second Sino-Japanese War left 15 to 20 million Chinese dead and culminated in victory for the Chinese Communists in the civil war.