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The Second Sino-Japanese War began July 7, 1937 to September 9, 1945. It was a war between the Japanese and the Chinese. It had been a long drawn out conflict with a few incidents between the two countries here and there. The incident that had set the war off had been the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937 ("Second Sino-Japanese War"). Shanghai and Nanking had suffered much from this war. Many of their people were massacred and killed as the Japanese made their way through, but the Chinese stood their ground under the instructions of General Chiang Kai-Shek (Steich). The reasons for this war is the Japanese hunger for more land and resources to expand their country, the invasion of Manchuria, and Japan's internal problems (Hickman).





Works Cited:

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"Second Sino-Japanese War." //New World Encyclopedia//. New World Encyclopedia, 13 Feb 2009. Web. 12 May 2010. .

Streich, Michael. "Nanking and the 2nd Sino-Japanese War 1937." //Suite 101//. Suite 101, 07 Mar 2009. Web. 12 May 2010. .