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However, the Nationalist government transferred hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops away from the front with Japan towards western provinces like Gansu, Qinghai & Xinjiang between 1942-1944 in order to seize Xinjiang from the Soviet Red Army and pro-Soviet warlord Sheng Shicai bringing Xinjiang under "Free China" and weakening China's front ...
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.
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]
The Outline of the Post-War New World Map was a map completed before the attack on Pearl Harbor [1] and self-published on February 25, 1942 [2] by Maurice Gomberg of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It shows a proposed political division of the world after World War II in the event of an Allied victory in which the United States of America, the ...
When the Imperial Japanese invaded French Indochina, the United States enacted the oil and steel embargo against Japan and froze all Japanese assets in 1941, [129] [130] and with it came the Lend-Lease Act of which China became a beneficiary on 6 May 1941; from there, China's main diplomatic, financial and military supporter came from the U.S ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Chinese famine of 1942–1943 has been referred to as 'China's forgotten famine', [19] overshadowed by the war that took place around it and the much Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1961. Novelist Liu Zhenyun says that there is a "collective amnesia" in Henan about the famine. [ 20 ]