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Eight-year history of Japan's invasion of China
The first stage: from/kloc-0 to the Lugouqiao Incident in July, 937 to the fall of Guangzhou and Wuhan in 1938 10, which is the strategic defense stage.

/kloc-0 On the night of July 7, 937, the Lugouqiao Incident broke out.

In Nanjing 1937, about 40,000 people were killed or injured by Japanese atrocities in Shanghai. In the same year, Japanese troops invaded Nanjing in 12 and 13. As the garrison commander Tang Shengzhi quickly abandoned the city and fled, Nanjing fell four days later.

In September, in order to seize Shanxi's rich coal resources, Japan sent more than 65,438+10,000 troops to attack. In response to the organization, the National Government launched the Taiyuan Campaign.

At the end of 1937, after the fall of Nanjing, the national government of the Republic of China resisted one after another.

1in February, 938, the Japanese North China Army attempted to join the Central China Dispatching Army in the south. The Chinese National Revolutionary Army fought fiercely with the Japanese in the area centered on Xuzhou, which is known as the Xuzhou Battle in history.

The Wuhan Battle from August 1938 to October 10 was the largest battle in the Sino-Japanese War.

The second stage: from 1938 10 to 1943 12, it is a strategic stalemate stage.

Japan launched the Sui-Zao Campaign and Zao-Yi Campaign which swept around Chongqing, hoping that the National Government would surrender at an early date.

At 8 o'clock in the morning on February 8, 65438, just a few hours after the Pearl Harbor incident, Japanese troops under the command of Sakai Takashi launched an attack on Hong Kong from Shenzhen, and the battle for defending Hong Kong began. On February 25th, 65438, Governor Yang led the British troops stationed in Hong Kong to surrender, and Hong Kong fell.

1940 in March, the puppet national government was established in Nanjing.

The three giants of the Cairo Conference1943110/0 In October, the heads of state of China, the United States and Britain met in Cairo, Egypt, and adopted the Cairo Declaration.

The third stage: from1June 1944 to1August 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, which is the strategic counterattack stage.

1944, the soldiers and civilians behind enemy lines led by the * * * Production Party launched a partial counterattack against the Japanese puppet troops in North China, Central China and South China.

1In May, 944, the expeditionary army of the Republic of China led by General Wei crossed the Nujiang River and launched a counterattack in western Yunnan. It successively conquered Songshan, Tengchong and Longling, which were defended by the Japanese army, and recovered the lost land in the southwest.