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Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Nazi Germany (until 1938), the Soviet Union (1937-1940) and the United States (see...
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Marco Polo Bridge Incident
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (盧溝橋事變; also known as 七七事變, 七七盧溝橋事變 or the Lugouqiao Incident) was a battle between the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army, marking the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
Duration:
- 2 days (Jul 7, 1937 — Jul 9, 1937)
Battle of Taierzhuang
The Battle of Tai'erzhuang (simplified Chinese: 台儿庄会战; traditional Chinese: 臺兒莊會戰; pinyin: Tái'érzhūang Huìzhàn) was a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, between armies of Chinese Kuomintang and Japan, and is sometimes considered as a...
Duration:
- 14 days (Mar 24, 1938 — Apr 7, 1938)
Hundred Regiments Offensive
The Hundred Regiments Offensive (Chinese: 百團大戰) (August 20 – December 5, 1940) was a major campaign of the Communist Party of China's Red Army commanded by Peng Dehuai against the Imperial Japanese Army in Central China.
Between 1939 and 1940, the...
Duration:
- 3 months (Aug 20, 1940 — Dec 5, 1940)
Battle of Nanjing
The Battle of Nanjing (simplified Chinese: 南京保卫战; traditional Chinese: 南京保衛戰; pinyin: Nánjīng Bǎowèi Zhàn; Wade-Giles: Nan-ching Pao-wei Chan) began after the fall of Shanghai on October 9, 1937, and ended with the fall of the capital city of...
Duration:
- Oct 9, 1937 —
Mukden Incident
The Mukden Incident represented an early event in the Second Sino-Japanese War, although full-scale war would not start until 1937. On September 18, 1931, near Mukden (now Shenyang) in southern Manchuria, a section of railroad owned by Japan's South...
Date:
- Sep 18, 1931
Panay incident
The Panay incident was a Japanese attack on the United States Navy gunboat Panay while she was anchored in the Yangtze River outside of Nanjing on December 12, 1937.
Japan and the United States were not at war at the time. The Japanese claimed that...
Battle of Shanghai
The Battle of Shanghai was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army, Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army, Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was one of the largest...
Duration:
- 3 months (Aug 13, 1937 — Nov 26, 1937)
Battle of Changsha
Battle of Changsha (September 17, 1939 – October 6, 1939) was the first attempt by Japan to take the city of Changsha, China, during the second Sino-Japanese War.
The war had already reached a stalemate after two years of fighting. In early...
Duration:
- 19 days (Sep 17, 1939 — Oct 6, 1939)
Battle of Changsha
The Battle of Changsha (September 6 – October 8, 1941) was Japan's second attempt in taking the city of Changsha, China, the capital of Hunan Province as part of the second Sino-Japanese War.
The offensive was carried out by more than 120,000...
Duration:
- 1 months (Sep 6, 1941 — Oct 8, 1941)
Battle of Changsha
The third Battle of Changsha (December 24, 1941 – January 15, 1942) was the first major offensive in China by Imperial Japanese forces following the Japanese attack on the Western Allies.
The offensive was originally intended to prevent Chinese...
Duration:
- 22 days (Dec 24, 1941 — Jan 15, 1942)
Battle of Changsha
The Battle of Changsha (1944), (also known as the Battle of Hengyang or Campaign of Changsha-Hengyang) was an invasion of the Chinese province of Hunan by Japanese troops near the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. As such, it encompasses three...
Duration:
- 3 months (May 1944 — Aug 1944)
Battle of Pingxingguan
The Battle of Pingxingguan (Chinese: 平型关战役; pinyin: Píngxíng Guān Zhànyì), also commonly called the "Great Victory of Pingxingguan" (Chinese: 平型关大捷; pinyin: Píngxíng Guān Dàjié) in Mainland China, was an engagement fought between the 8th Route Army...
Duration:
- 1 days (Sep 24, 1937 — Sep 25, 1937)
Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
The Soviet invasion of Manchuria or, as the Soviets named it, the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation (Russian: Манчжурская стратегическая наступательная операция, lit. Manchzurkaya Strategicheskaya Nastupatelnaya Operaciya), began on August 9,...
Duration:
- 11 days (Aug 9, 1945 — Aug 20, 1945)
New Fourth Army Incident
The New Fourth Army Incident (新四軍事件), also known as the Wannan Incident (皖南事变), occurred in China in January 1941 during the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which the Chinese Civil War was in theory suspended, uniting the Communists and...
Duration:
- 6 days (Jan 7, 1941 — Jan 13, 1941)
January 28 Incident
The January 28 Incident (January 28 – March 3, 1932) was a short war between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, before official hostilities of the Second Sino-Japanese War commenced in 1937.
In Chinese literature, it is...
Duration:
- 1 months (Jan 28, 1932 — Mar 3, 1932)
Battle of Xuzhou
The Battle of Xuzhou was fought between Japanese and Chinese forces in May 1938 during Second Sino-Japanese War.
In 1937, the North China Area Army had chased Song Zheyuan's 29th Army to the south along the Jinpu Railway (see Tianjin–Pukou Railway...
Duration:
- 5 months (Dec 1937 — May 1938)
Battle of Henan-Hunan-Guangxi
Operation Ichi-Go (一号作戦 Ichi-gō Sakusen, lit. "Operation Number One") was a campaign of a series of major battles between the Imperial Japanese Army forces and the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, fought from April to December...
Duration:
- 7 months (Apr 17, 1944 — Dec 10, 1944)
Battle of Xiushui River
The Battle of Xiushui River was fought in March 1939 as part of the Battle of Nanchang, northeast of Nanchang, China.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese artillery forces marched a long distance into the vast area of continental China....
Date:
- Mar 1939
Sichuan invasion
The Szechwan Invasion, also known as the Chongqing Operation, Chongqing Campaign or Operation 5, was the Imperial Japanese Army's failed plan to destroy the Chongqing-based Chiang Kai-shek government during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was to be...
Duration:
- 1 years (1942 — 1943)
Battle of Nanchang
The Battle of Nanchang (Traditional Chinese: 南昌會戰, Simplified Chinese: 南昌会战) was a major battle between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was the first major conflict...
Duration:
- 1 months (Mar 17, 1939 — May 9, 1939)
Battle of Taiyuan
The Japanese offensive called 太原作戦 or the Battle of Taiyuan (traditional Chinese: 太原會戰; pinyin: Tàiyuán Huìzhàn; Wade-Giles: T'ai-yüan Hui-tsan) was a major battle fought between China and Japan named for Taiyuan (the capital of Shanxi province),...
Duration:
- 2 months (Sep 1, 1937 — Nov 9, 1937)
Defense of Sihang Warehouse
The Defense of Sihang Warehouse (simplified Chinese: 四行仓库; traditional Chinese: 四行倉庫; pinyin: Sìháng Cāngkù) took place from October 26 to November 1, 1937, and marked the beginning of the end of the three-month Battle of Shanghai in the opening...
Duration:
- 6 days (Oct 26, 1937 — Nov 1, 1937)
Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi
Duration:
- 4 months (May 1942 — Sep 1942)
Battle of Wuhan
The Battle of Wuhan (simplified Chinese: 武汉会战; traditional Chinese: 武漢會戰; pinyin: Wǔhàn Huìzhàn), popularly known to Chinese as the Defense of Wuhan (simplified Chinese: 武汉保卫战; traditional Chinese: 武漢保衛戰; pinyin: Wǔhàn Baǒwèizhàn), and to the...
Duration:
- 4 months (Jun 11, 1938 — Oct 27, 1938)
Battle of West Hunan
The Battle of West Hunan (湘西會戰), also known as the Chihchiang Campaign (芷江作戰) was the Japanese invasion of west Hunan and the subsequent Chinese counterattack that occurred between April 6 and June 7, 1945, during the last months of the Second Sino...
Duration:
- 1 months (Apr 9, 1945 — Jun 7, 1945)
Battle of Changde
The Battle of Changde (simplified Chinese: 常德会战; traditional Chinese: 常德會戰; pinyin: Chángdé Huìzhàn) was a major engagement in the Second Sino-Japanese War. On November 2, 1943 the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) invaded and occupied the undefended...
Duration:
- 1 months (Nov 2, 1943 — Dec 20, 1943)
Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
The Battle of Beiping-Tianjin (simplified Chinese: 平津作战; traditional Chinese: 平津作戰; pinyin: Píng Jīn Zùozhàn), also known as the “Peiking-Tientsin Operation” or by the Japanese as the North China Incident (北支事変, Hokushi jiken) (25 July – 31 July...
Duration:
- 1 months (Jul 1937 — Aug 1937)
Battle of Shanggao
The Battle of Shanggao (simplified Chinese: 上高会战; traditional Chinese: 上高會戰; pinyin: Shànggāo Huìzhàn) was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It...
Duration:
- 1 months (Mar 4, 1941 — Apr 9, 1941)
Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang
The Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang (simplified Chinese: 随枣会战; traditional Chinese: 隨棗會戰; pinyin: Suízǎo Huìzhàn), also known as the Battle of Suizao was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) and Imperial Japanese...
Duration:
- 29 days (Apr 24, 1939 — May 23, 1939)
Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang
The Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang (simplified Chinese: 枣宜会战; traditional Chinese: 棗宜會戰; pinyin: Zǎoyí Huìzhàn), also known as the Battle of Zaoyi was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army...
Duration:
- 1 months (May 1, 1940 — Jun 18, 1940)
Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou
The Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou (simplified Chinese: 桂柳会战; traditional Chinese: 桂柳會戰; pinyin: Gùilǐu Huìzhàn), also known as the Battle of Guiliu was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) and Imperial Japanese...
Duration:
- 3 months (Aug 16, 1944 — Nov 24, 1944)
Defense of the Great Wall
The Defense of the Great Wall (simplified Chinese: 长城抗战; traditional Chinese: 長城抗戰; pinyin: Chángchéng Kàngzhàn) (January 1, 1933 – May 31 1933) was a campaign between the armies of Republic of China and Empire of Japan, which took place before the...
Duration:
- 5 months (Jan 1, 1933 — May 31, 1933)
Battle of Xinkou
The Battle of Xinkou (simplified Chinese: 忻口会战; traditional Chinese: 忻口會戰; pinyin: Xīnkǒu Huìzhàn) was the second of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War....
Duration:
- 1 months (Sep 13, 1937 — Nov 11, 1937)
Battle of South Shanxi
The Battle of South Shanxi (simplified Chinese: 晋南会战; traditional Chinese: 晉南會戰; pinyin: Jìn Nán Huìzhàn), also known as the Battle of Jinnan and as Chungyuan Operation by the Japanese, it was one of the 22 major engagements between the National...
Duration:
- 20 days (May 7, 1941 — May 27, 1941)
Battle of West Henan–North Hubei
The Battle of West Henan-North Hubei (simplified Chinese: 豫西鄂北会战; traditional Chinese: 豫西鄂北會戰; pinyin: Yù Xī È Běi Huìzhàn), was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second...
Duration:
- 1 months (Mar 21, 1945 — May 11, 1945)
Battle of South Guangxi
The Battle of South Guangxi (simplified Chinese: 桂南会战; traditional Chinese: 桂南會戰; pinyin: Guìnán Huìzhàn), was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
In...
Duration:
- 1 years (Nov 15, 1939 — Nov 30, 1940)
Battle of South Henan
The Battle of South Henan (simplified Chinese: 豫南会战; traditional Chinese: 豫南會戰; pinyin: Yùnán Huìzhàn), was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Order...
Duration:
- 1 months (Jan 30, 1941 — Mar 1, 1941)
Battle of West Hubei
The Battle of West Hubei (simplified Chinese: 鄂西会战; traditional Chinese: 鄂西會戰; pinyin: È Xī Huìzhàn), was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was...
Duration:
- 22 days (May 12, 1943 — Jun 3, 1943)
Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge
The Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge was a small battle fought between forces of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army against the Imperial Japanese Army and collaborationist forces, after the Mukden Incident during the Invasion of Manchuria at the...
Date:
- Nov 4, 1931
Battle of Rehe
The Battle of Rehe (sometimes called the Battle of Jehol) was the second part of Operation Nekka, a campaign by which the Empire of Japan successfully captured the Inner Mongolian province of Rehe from the Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang and annexed...
Duration:
- 8 days (Feb 21, 1933 — Mar 1, 1933)
1939–1940 Winter Offensive
The 1939–40 Winter Offensive was one of the major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Chinese had repulsed two Japanese offensives in the summer at the Battle of...
Duration:
- 4 months (Nov 1, 1939 — Mar 1940)
Suiyuan Campaign
The Suiyuan Campaign was an engagement between the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Japanese-trained Inner Mongolian/Grand Han Righteous Armies before the outbreak of official hostilities during the Second Sino-Japanese...
Duration:
- 1 months (Oct 1936 — Nov 1936)
Battle of Lanfeng
The Battle of Lanfeng was part of the larger campaign for Northern and Eastern Honan (Feb. 7 – June 10 1938) and was occurring at the same time as the Battle of Xuzhou (Late Dec. – Early June, 1938). It involved a counterattack at Lanfeng by...
Date:
- May 1938
Battle of Wuyuan
The Battle of Wuyuan (March 16 – April 3, 1940) was a counterattack that defeated the Japanese invasion of the Wuyuan area. The in reaction to the Chinese 1939-40 Winter Offensive in Suiyuan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese call it...
Duration:
- 18 days (Mar 16, 1940 — Apr 3, 1940)
Operation Chahar
Operation Chahar, known by the Japanese as チャハル作戦 (Operation Quhar) and by the Chinese as the 长城抗战 (Battle of the Great Wall), occurred in August 1937 following the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
This was...
Date:
- Aug 1937
Northern and Eastern Honan 1938
During the Second Sino-Japanese War the Japanese 1st Army under Lt. General Kiyoshi Katsuki drove the Chinese forces of General Cheng Chien's 1st War Area out of Northern and Eastern Honan until they were stopped by the disastrous 1938 Yellow River...
Duration:
- 5 months (Jan 1938 — Jun 1938)
Battle of Kunlun Pass
The Battle of Kunlun Pass (simplified Chinese: 昆仑关战役; traditional Chinese: 崑崙關戰役; pinyin: Kūnlúnguān Zhànyì) was a series of struggles between the Japanese and the Chinese in contention for Kunlun Pass.
In this battle, the National Revolutionary...
Duration:
- 24 days (Dec 18, 1939 — Jan 11, 1940)
Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation
The Japanese 京漢線作戦 or Peiking–Hankou Railway Operation (Mid August – Dec. 1937) was a follow up operation to the Peiking Tientsin Operation of the Japanese army in North China at the beginning of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese advanced to...
Duration:
- 4 months (Aug 1937 — Dec 1937)
Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation
The Japanese 津浦線作戦 or Tientsin–Pukow Railway Operation (Early August to mid November, 1937) was a follow up operation to the Peiking Tientsin Operation of the Japanese army in North China at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The...
Duration:
- 3 months (Aug 1937 — Nov 1937)
Second Guangxi Campaign
The Second Guangxi Campaign (Late April – July 1945) was a Chinese counteroffensive against the Japanese forces that had taken Guangxi during Operation Ichigo and aimed at the recovery of all Guangxi province. It was one of the final campaigns of...
Duration:
- 3 months (Apr 1945 — Jul 1945)
Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road (Mid March – Early June 1942) was the name of the Chinese intervention to aid their British allies in the 1942 Burma Campaign. Its forces were composed of the Fifth, Sixth and Sixty-sixth Army under the command of the...
Duration:
- 3 months (Mar 1942 — Jun 1942)
Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan (Chinese: 滇西缅北会战, Oct. 1943 - Mar. 1945) was the name of the Chinese campaign with their allies in the 1943-45 Burma Campaign.
Duration:
- 1 years (Oct 1943 — Mar 1945)
Amoy Operation
The Amoy Operation was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China to prevent it from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials. Control of Amoy Island would provide a base to...
Duration:
- 3 days (May 10, 1938 — May 13, 1938)
Canton Operation
The Canton Operation was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China to prevent it from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials. Control of Canton and the Pearl River Delta...
Duration:
- 2 months (Oct 1938 — Dec 1938)
Hainan Island Operation
The Hainan Island Operation was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China to prevent it from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials. Control of Hainan Island would provide...
Duration:
- -1 years (Feb 9, 1939 — Feb 1939)
Indochina Expedition
The Japanese Invasion of French Indochina (仏印進駐, Futsu-in shinchū), also known as the Vietnam Expedition, was an attempt by the Empire of Japan, during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China and prevent it from importing arms, fuel and 10...
Duration:
- 5 days (Sep 22, 1940 — Sep 27, 1940)
Swatow Operation
The Swatow Operation, (June 21–27,1939) was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China to prevent it from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials. Control of Swatow would...
Duration:
- 6 days (Jun 21, 1939 — Jun 27, 1939)
Battle of Yenangyaung
The Battle of Yenangyaung (Chinese: 仁安羌大捷, Great Victory at Yenangyaung) was fought in Burma, now Myanmar during the Burma Campaign in World War II. The battle of Yenaungyaung was fought in the vicinity of Yenangyaung and its oil fields.
The battle...
Duration:
- 8 days (Apr 11, 1942 — Apr 19, 1942)
Jiangqiao Campaign
The Jiangqiao Campaign was a series of battles and skirmishes occurring after the Mukden Incident, during the invasion of Manchuria by the Imperial Japanese Army in the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
After the Mukden Incident, the...
Duration:
- 14 days (Nov 4, 1931 — Nov 18, 1931)
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan, beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II.
On September 19,...
Duration:
- 5 months (Sep 19, 1931 — Feb 27, 1932)
