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The Battle of Xinkou (simplified Chinese: 忻口会战; traditional Chinese: 忻口會戰; pinyin: Xīnkǒu Huìzhàn) was a decisive engagement of the Taiyuan Campaign, the second of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The battles listed here are ones that have corresponding Wikipedia articles. A flag icon to the left of a battle's name shows the victorious side in the engagement. The date to the right of a battle's name shows when it began, except in the case of 1942's Battle of Changsha, which began in December 1941.
[29] [30] It is considered part of World War II, and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century [31] and has been described as "the Asian Holocaust", in reference to the scale of Japanese war crimes against Chinese civilians.
Japanese troops guarding Chinese refugees displaced by war and the Yellow River Flood, China Jun-Jul 1938. The immediate drowning deaths were estimated to range from 30,000 (Kuo Tai-chun, 2015) [11] [12] to 89,000 (China Academy of Sciences, 1995). [13] Estimates of total deaths resulting from floods, famine and plague varied wildly.
Wei Lihuang (traditional Chinese: 衛立煌; simplified Chinese: 卫立煌; pinyin: Wèi Lìhuáng) (16 February 1897 – 17 January 1960) was a Chinese general who served the Nationalist government throughout the Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War as one of China's most successful military commanders.
This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War .
The Second Sino-Japanese War began on 7 July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge incident in the Republic of China and is often regarded as the start of World War II as full-scale warfare erupted with the Battle of Shanghai, [1] and ending when the Empire of Japan surrendered to the Allies in August 1945. [2] The Chinese Air Force faced the ...
The following is a list of military equipment of the ROC in World War II (1937–1945) [1] which includes aircraft, artillery, small arms, vehicles and vessels. This list covers the equipment of the National Revolutionary Army, various warlords and including the Collaborationist Chinese Army and Manchukuo Imperial Army, as well as Communist guerillas, encompassing the period of the Second ...