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- The Sino-Japanese War
- Course of war until 1941
- By 1938 fertile areas of Chinese in J hands
- Nanking & Beijing - occupied leader Chinese nationalists
- General Chiang Kai Shek
- Forced to leave
- Negotiate alliance - Chinese Communists
- Whom waging Chinese Civil war since 1927
- Territories occupied least advanced in China economically
- Nanking & Beijing - occupied leader Chinese nationalists
- Japanese installed puppet government in Beijing 1938
- Attracted little loyalty
- Official subject - guerrilla attacks by nationalists
- By 1940 - from between two forces extended 300km
- Japanese achieved military success
- Overextended themselves
- Fighting reached deadlock
- Japanese achieved military success
- End 1941 - Japanese lost 185,000 troops
- Up to 1mill J troops tied down to D until 1945
- By 1938 fertile areas of Chinese in J hands
- Reactions of the Great Powers
- B & F
- Emphasised flimsiness of B & F power
- Neither afford hostilities Europe & Far East
- Tension mounted on Europe
- B & F governs avoided confrontation with J
- 1937 - Senior F diplomat informed US ambassador - F take not action against J
- USA
- Equally reluctant take military measures
- Spreading conflict enable Pr. R begin slow realigning the US
- Democracies against Rome-Berlin Axis & Japan
- Dec 1937 B & US ship attacked J planes
- Pr. R sent US naval officer discuss future co-operation B & US fleets
- Pr. R criticised compromising US neutrality
- USSR
- Stalin X wish involved
- S rejected Chiang Kai-shek;s request Soviet invasion of Manchukuo
- Feared Nazi-G exploit - opportunity attack in west
- USSR - weakened by the purges eliminated most Red Army's senior officers
- Feared Nazi-G exploit - opportunity attack in west
- S didn't want J dominate C
- Threaten Soviet-controlled Mongolia
- S urged C Coumminsts & Nationalists create united front against Japense continued supply Chiang Kai-Skek with weapons & aircraft
- 1938 Soviet reinforce - USSR-Mongolian border
- Led - armed clash lasting 2 weeks at Lake Khason
- Tension escalated - J troops occupied disputed territory
- Led - major confrontation- tanks & aircraft ended a truce signed 15th September 1939
- Tension escalated - J troops occupied disputed territory
- Led - armed clash lasting 2 weeks at Lake Khason
- Germany
- New Nazi foreign minister - Ribbentrop ordered H create
- 'world triangle' foreign alliances with J & I- maximum pressure on F & B empires
- J welcomed policy - hope - discourage US & R intervention in C
- 'world triangle' foreign alliances with J & I- maximum pressure on F & B empires
- R's eyes start 'world triangle' - Dec 1936 - G & J signed - Anti-Comintern Pact - joined year later I
- 1938 J policy paid off - Nazi govern cancelled aid to Chiang Kai-shek & recognised Manchukuo
- Nazi-Soviet Pact undo propaganda advantages of Ant-Comintern Pact for J
- However, J - chance take over F & Dutch colonies in Far East
- Aims welcomed by H & R - realisation - his 'world triangle' concept force B make peace
- 27th September 1940 Tripartite Pact I & J negotiated
- Aims welcomed by H & R - realisation - his 'world triangle' concept force B make peace
- However, J - chance take over F & Dutch colonies in Far East
- New Nazi foreign minister - Ribbentrop ordered H create
- B & F
- Course of war until 1941
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