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Beginning of the Chinese famine of 1942-43; April 26 - a gas and coal dust explosion in the Benxihu Colliery killed 1,549 miners. [1] [2] [3] mid May-early September - Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign; A cholera epidemic in Yunnan province kills around 200 people [4]
January 15 — Yuan Guoping, communist army officer (b. 1906); March 14 Xiang Ying, political chief of staff of the New Fourth Army and early founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (b.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. 1927–1949 civil war in China For other uses, see Chinese Civil War (disambiguation). Chinese Civil War Part of the interwar period, the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Cold War Clockwise from top left: Communist troops at the Battle of Siping National Revolutionary Army troops ...
In early 1942 in mainland China, the Japanese 3rd, 6th, and 40th Divisions, a total of around 120,000 troops, massed at Yueyang and advanced southward in three columns, attempting again to cross the Miluo River to reach Changsha. In January 1942, Chinese forces scored a victory at Changsha, the first Allied success against Japan. [129]
The Third Battle of Changsha (24 December 1941 – 15 January 1942; Chinese: 第三次長沙會戰) was the first major offensive in China by Imperial Japanese forces following the Japanese attack on the Western Allies and the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Japan's third of four attempts to capture the Chinese city of Changsha. It was conducted ...
From 1941 to 1942, Japan concentrated most of its forces in China in an effort to defeat the Communist bases behind Japan's lines. [58]: 35 To decrease guerilla's human and material resources, the Japanese military implemented its Three Alls policy ("Kill all, loot all, burn all").
During the war, China was one of the Big Four Allies, and later one of the Four Policemen, which was a precursor to China having a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. [ 58 ] In August 1945, with American help, Nationalist troops moved to take the Japanese surrender in North China.
Upper half of Map 19 showing the Winter offensive 1939-1940 in North China. Map 19, from Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) 2nd Ed. ,1971. Lower half of map 19 showing the Winter offensive 1939-1940 in Central and South China from Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War ...