The war with Japan devastated the Nanjing Government, her military, and China. The Nationalists had survived the war and still remained in power. Their failures, however, particularly late in the war, and at the nations greatest time of need, were fate

The Sino-Japanese War ends. Japans surrender, a momentous event, also ended World War II. A victory certainly for China and the Allied Powers. It left, however, many geo-political questions and issues. The war with Japan also exposed to the world the

Chinas war against Japan eventually merged into the greater world war. Particularly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan became a central concern to the Allies, especially the United States.Soon after the Japanese began their war against China, it h

Did the second united front between the Nationalists and the Communists solidly meld the two sides together, or was that merely an illusion? We find out in this episode. By 1939, the United States was loaning money to the Nationalist government. There

The second Sino-Japanese War began in July 1937. Which side started it can be debated. We do know it was an eight-year horror show. It would overlap and influence the coming second world war. The opening actions of the Japanese war saw terrible human

The relatively short time span from 1927, after the Nationalists creation of the Nanjing Government, to 1937, at the start of the Sino-Japanese war, makes it difficult to evaluate that government. Today, there are mixed views.During a portion of that s

Beginning in 1927, Mao Zedong and Zhu De grew the Communist Red Army from a small force of maybe 5,000 troops to over 250,000 troops by 1933. Despite the progressive antagonism and military attacks by the Nationalist forces, the communist learned to recru

If the 1920 decade was not enough drama, stay tuned for the even more dramatic 1930s. The decade tested the new Nationalist government in Nanjing, its leader, Chiang Kai-shek, and China. Internationalism was tossed. Ever so visible with Japans aggressi

The new National government in Nanjing begins. For most of its existence it was led by Chiang Kai-Shek and his Guomindang cadre. Many parts of China were united for the first time since 1916. It was an uneasy unity facing many challenges both immediate

There were many reasons for the Peking (Beiyang) government’s failure.  Its fecklessness led to the organization and planning of the massive nationalist campaign in China in the 1920s. Its goal was to unify China and expel or neutralize foreign intrusion