The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought from 1937 to 1945 between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, growing out of decades of Japanese expansion into Chinese territory and merging into the wider Pacific theater of World War II after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The war began in earnest with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident near Beijing in July 1937, followed by rapid Japanese advances that captured Shanghai, the Chinese capital Nanjing, where occupying forces perpetrated the mass atrocity known as the Nanjing Massacre, and much of eastern China by 1938. Chinese resistance, divided between the Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong in an uneasy united front, fought a grinding war of attrition that tied down large Japanese forces for years even as front lines stabilized. Japan's surrender in August 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet declaration of war, ended the conflict, but China's civil war between the Nationalists and Communists, only briefly suspended for the united front, resumed almost immediately afterward.
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CombatantsRepublic of China, Nationalist and Communist forces in United Front, versus the Empire of Japan and its puppet states 1 OutcomeChinese victory; China recovered territory lost to Japan and to Japanese puppet states 1 Classification
Death Toll Min Conflict Type Second Sino-Japanese War
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The August 1945 atomic bombings ended the Pacific War against Japan while Japan was still fighting the Second Sino-Japanese War, which did not end until Japans surrender the same month.
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Mao Zedong led Communist forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War
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It is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia, as the wars became heavily intertwined after Japan attacked the United States.
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It is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia, as the wars became heavily intertwined after Japan attacked the United States.
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It is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia, as the wars became heavily intertwined after Japan attacked the United States.
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It is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia, as the wars became heavily intertwined after Japan attacked the United States.
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Infobox casualties: 14,000,000 to 22,000,000 total deaths
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Japan's surrender in August 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet declaration of war, ended the conflict, but China's civil war between the Nationalists and Communists, only briefly suspended for the united front, resumed almost immediately afterward.
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Nuclear weapons have been used twice in war, in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people.
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