The International Military Tribunal for the Far East was formed to try accused people in Japan itself.High-ranking officers who were tried included Koichi Kido and Sadao Araki. Three former (unelected ...
Japanese imperial forces employed widespread use of torture on prisoners, usually in an effort to gather military intelligence quickly. Tortured prisoners were often later executed. A former Japanese ...
Main article: Definitions of Japanese war crimesSoochow, China, 1938. A ditch full of the bodies of Chinese civilians, killed by Japanese soldiers.War crimes have been defined by the Tokyo Charter as ...
The Chinese were not entirely devoting all their resources to the Japanese, because they were fighting several other wars at the same time.The Soviet Union attacked the Republic of China in 1937 durin ...
The basis of Chinese strategy before the entrance of Western Allies can be divided into two periods:First Period: July 7, 1937 (Battle of Lugou Bridge) – October 25, 1938 (Fall of Wuhan).Unlike Japan ...
In Japanese propaganda, the invasion of China became a "holy war" (Japanese: 聖戦 Hepburn: seisen), the first step of the Hakkō ichiu (八紘一宇?, eight corners of the world under one roof). In 1940, ...
The Second Red Army began its own withdrawal west from Hubei in November 1935, led by He Long, who commanded the KMT Twentieth Army in 1923 before joining the Communist Party of China (CPC). For retri ...
1930: Unofficial founding of the Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet by Mao Zedong and Zhu De.1931: December, Zhou Enlai arrives in Ruijin and replaces Mao as leader of the CCP.1932: October, at the Ningdu Confere ...
On November 7, 1931 (the anniversary of the 1917 Russian October Revolution) a National Soviet People's Delegates Conference was held in Ruijin (瑞金), Jiangxi province. Ruijin was the national capita ...
The Northern Expedition also known as Northern March began from the KMT's power base in Guangdong province. In 1925 the May 30th Movement announced plans for strike and protest against western imperia ...
Malaysian Chinese Association Malaysian Chinese AssociationInitially the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) party was pro-ROC and mainly consisted of Kuomintang members who joined as an alternative a ...
In 1895, Taiwan, including the Penghu islands, became a Japanese colony, a concession by the Qing Empire after it lost the First Sino-Japanese War. After Japan's defeat at the end of World War II in 1 ...
Main article: History of the KuomintangEarly years, Sun Yat-sen era The Kuomintang refer reverentially to founder Sun Yat-sen as the "Father of the Nation." Sun is pictured here in 1917.The Kuomintang ...
A new Constitution was promulgated in 1947, and Chiang was formally elected by the National Assembly as the first term President of the Republic of China on May 20, 1948. This marked the beginning of ...
Chiang was born in Xikou, a town approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of downtown Ningbo, in Fenghua, Zhejiang. However, his ancestral home, a concept important in Chinese society, was the to ...
