War Against Japan 1937
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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

Other Notes in this Category

1. Civil War 1937-1945
2. Civil War 1945-1949
3. Early Nationalist and Communist Activity
4. Long March 1934-5
5. War Against Japan 1937
6. Xian Incident Dec 1936
7. Yanaan 1936-45

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