Before the Invasion
This country invaded Manchuria in 1931, starting tensions with China.
What is Japan?
Japan seized these regions during the First Sino-Japanese war.
What is Taiwan, Korea, and the Penghu Islands?
This war ended in 1945 and stopped the Japanese invasion of China.
What is WWII?
China was struggling with this type of internal conflict before the Japanese invasion.
What is a civil war?
Many people fled this capital city before it was attacked in December 1937.
What is Nanjing?
This country helped rebuild both Japan and China after the war, giving money and supplies.
What is the USA?
This region of China was rich in resources and was Japan’s first target in 1931.
What is Manchuria?
This city saw intense fighting and was one of the first major battles.
What is Shanghai?
After WWII two Chinese groups fought against each other again. This is the name of this conflict in China that was paused during the Japanese invasion of China.
What is the Chinese civil war?
The name of the Chinese political party led by Mao Zedong.
What is the CCP?
This 1937 incident near Beijing is considered the start of the war.
What is the Marco Polo Bridge Incident?
This tribunal, often called the "Tokyo Trials," was used to prosecute Japanese leaders for war crimes after World War II.
What is the International Military Tribunal for the Far East?
The name of the Chinese political party led by Chiang Kai-shek.
What is the Nationalist Party/Kuomintang?
This was the new capital after the Japanese invaded Nanjing.
What is Chongqing?
Many survivors of the Japanese invasion of China told their stories to help the world remember what happened. This is called this two-word term.
What is oral history?