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- Causes
- Began as militaristic Japan attempted to extend its influence from Manchuria into China
- Nature
- Alliance with Russia after first year of resistance against Japan 1937
- Russia sent munitions, advisors and supplies
- 1938
- Japan controls most of the northern Chinese railways
- Most of the munitions, resources and tax base in Japanese Hands
- Government had lost the best of its armies.
- 1939-43 Stalemate
- Repeated bombing of free china
- 1940 Rival Government set up in Nanking
- Massive foreign aid, which subsequently dried up as war broke out
- Massive inflation
- Red army united with National Army carried out guerrilla attacks on isolated Japanese garrisons; growth rapid.
- 1941 Renewed Conflict
- January 1941 - New Fourth Army Incident
- Government orders Red Army north, while it actually moves south
- In Kiangsu, fought with government for control of area
- Many killed, 2,000 communists captured
- Unwilling to risk all out war
- Economic blockade on CCP
- GMD Ally America post 1941
- Aim to deter Japanese expansion
- Japanese incursions on Hong Kong and the problems along the Burma Road meant supplies were difficult to come by.
- Japan second priority vis-à-vis Germany
- 1943
- Allied strategy shifts to approaching Japan from south-west
- 1944-5
- Japan under pressure in Pacific and on supply lines
- Response
- Capture Chinese airfields
- Capture North South Airfields
- Chinese collapse under Ichigo Campaign
- Hundreds of thousands of men unable to resist Japanese attack on Rail
- Peasants attack army after defeat
- Wranglings between America and China over
- Training
- Command
- Lend-Lease supply usage
- Nationalist Deterioration
- Inflation
- Paper money produced as fiscal deficits mounted
- Fixed wages decrease
- Hoarding increased corruption
- Spread through govt and army
- Failure to manage economy
- Inflation
- 1937 Price Index 100
- 1948 Price Index 287,700,000
- Secret Police Activity
- Against CCP
- And all dissidents
- Ends August 14, 1945
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