Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of China in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called "incidents". In 1931, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by Japan's Kwantung Army followed the Mukden Incident. The last of these incidents was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, marking the beginning of total war between the two countries.
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| - Second Sino-Japanese War (Central Victory)
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| - Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of China in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called "incidents". In 1931, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by Japan's Kwantung Army followed the Mukden Incident. The last of these incidents was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, marking the beginning of total war between the two countries.
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| - 900(xsd:integer)
- 3500(xsd:integer)
- 900000(xsd:integer)
- 3900000(xsd:integer)
- 5600000(xsd:integer)
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| Date
| - 1931-09-18(xsd:date)
- 1937-07-07(xsd:date)
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| Commander
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| Casualties
| - 1937(xsd:integer)
- 1172200(xsd:integer)
- Communist: 500,000 KIA and WIA.
- Nationalist: 1,320,000 KIA, 1,797,000 WIA, 120,000 MIA, and 17,000,000–22,000,000 civilians dead
- Japanese estimates—including 480,000 dead in total
- Contemporary studies: 1,055,000 dead
- Total: 2,227,200
- Nationalist Chinese estimates—1.77 million deaths, 1.9 million wounded
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| Result
| - * Chinese victory as part of the victory in the
* Surrender of all Japanese forces in mainland China , and north of to the
* China becomes a permanent member of the
* Resumption of
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- with Collaborator support
- with Foreign support
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| abstract
| - Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of China in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources, particularly food and labour. Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called "incidents". In 1931, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by Japan's Kwantung Army followed the Mukden Incident. The last of these incidents was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, marking the beginning of total war between the two countries. Initially the Japanese scored major victories in Shanghai, and by the end of 1937 captured the Chinese capital of Nanking. After failing to stop the Japanese in Wuhan, the Chinese central government moved to Chongqing in the Chinese interior. By 1939 the war had reached stalemate after Chinese victories in Changsha and Guangxi. The Japanese were also unable to defeat the Chinese communists forces in Shaanxi, which performed harassment and sabotage operations against the Japanese. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the following day (December 8) the United States declared war on Japan.
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