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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 Battle of Beiping, Battle of Peiping, Battle of Beijing, Battle of Peiking, the Peiking–Tientsin Operation, and by the Japanese as the North China Incident (北支事変, Hokushi jihen) (25–31 July 1937) was a series of battles of the Second ...
July 1936 – January 1937: From 1934 to 1936, the Long March occurred. Yan'an 延安: January 1937 – 22 September 1937: CSR dissolves in the midst of the formation of the Second United Front: Beijing 北京: 1 October 1949 – Present
The full-scale war began on 7 July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge incident near Beijing, which prompted a full-scale Japanese invasion of the rest of China. The Japanese captured the capital of Nanjing in 1937 and perpetrated the Nanjing Massacre .
During the war, [63] Beijing fell to Japan on 29 July 1937 [65] and was made the seat of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, a puppet state that ruled the ethnic-Chinese portions of Japanese-occupied northern China. [66] This government was later merged into the larger Wang Jingwei government based in Nanjing. [67]
Most nation-building efforts were stopped during the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War against Japan from 1937 to 1945, and later the widening gap between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party made a coalition government impossible, causing the resumption of the Chinese Civil War, in 1946, shortly after the Japanese surrender to the Allied ...
Below is the order of battle for the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin, called the Peiking-Tientsin Operation in pinyin spelling, a series of battles fought from 25 July through 31 July 1937 as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was called the North China Incident (北支事変, Hokushi jihen) by the Japanese.
The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident [a] or the July 7 incident, [b] was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing between the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army.
1937–40 Beijing [Note 16] 1945 ... He did not return to Beijing until almost 30 years later. ... Their fall implicated the mayor of Beijing, ...