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===[[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Second Sino-Japanese War [[File:Showa.png]]===
The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between  [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] the Republic of China against the the [[File:Showa.png]] Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider [[File:Cball-US.png]] Pacific Theater of the Second World War. The start of the war is historically dated to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on 7 July 1937, when a dispute between [[File:Showa.png]] Japanese and [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Chinese troops in Peking escalated into a full-scale invasion. It is not known who fired the first shots at this event. This war is often regarded as the start of the Second World War in Asia. Following the Marco-Polo Bridge Incident, the [[File:Showa.png]] Japanese were able to score major victories such as capturing large cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and burning down the [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Chinese capital of Nanjing on December 13, 1937. Prior to failing to stop the [[File:Showa.png]] Japanese forces in the Battle of Wuhan, the [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Chinese government was relocated to Chongqing. While Japan ruled the large cities, it lacked the adequate manpower to control [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] China's vast countryside. 

The [[File:NRA.png]] National Revolutionary Army under the command of Generalissimo [[File:ChiangKaiShek.png]] Chiang Kai-shek and other regional Warlords fought against the Japanese in 22 major battles. By 1939, after Chinese victories in Changsha and Guangxi, the war reached a stalemate. The war would end on September 2nd, 1945, resulting in the [[File:Showa.png]] Japanese surrendering to the Allies.

After the war, the Chinese economy collapsed due to the lack of [[File:Cball-US.png]] American foreign aid in the war, unlike most other counties like [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Britain, [[File:Gaullismicon2.png]] Free France, and [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] the USSR. The inflation rate skyrocketed, and corruption became extremely rampant. The [[File:ChinaCP.png]] [[Maoism|CPC]] after receiving the arms and munitions from  [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] the USSR, was able to take advantage of this and launched a major “offensive” after Japan surrendered and controlled 2/3 of the territories occupied by Japan. Many historians assess that this war destroyed the popularity and stability [[File:RightKMT.png]] [[Tridemism|Nationalist Government]] and paved the way for the communist takeover as the communists made minimum efforts to resist Japan, but instead focused on expanding its troops to turn on the nationalists.