Word: chiangs
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...deepest conflict between the U.S. and Japan, though, was over the future of China, which had been in turmoil ever since the collapse of the Manchu Empire in 1911. Though Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek claimed that his Canton- based Kuomintang represented the entire republic, local warlords ruled much of the country, notably the huge northern territory of Manchuria. The Japanese, who had blocked a number of Russian incursions into Manchuria, were moving in to gain control of the region's plentiful coal and iron, which Japan sorely lacked...
That left Chiang and his Chinese Nationalists to fight on against the Japanese, the growing communist guerrilla forces of Mao Zedong and a clutch of surviving warlords. On the night of July 7, 1937, came the murky events that constituted the long-expected "incident." A Japanese soldier apparently wandered off to relieve himself near the Marco Polo Bridge, outside Beijing. His comrades, who later claimed they feared he had been kidnapped, got into a gunfight with a nearby Chinese Nationalist unit, and the fighting soon spread...
Reporter-Researchers: Rosemary Byrnes, Oscar Chiang, Adrianne Jucius Navon (Senior Staff); Jeffery C. Rubin, Sribala Subramanian...
Reporter-Researchers: Rosemary Byrnes, Oscar Chiang, Adrianne Jucius Navon (Senior Staff); Jeffery C. Rubin, Sribala Subramanian...
Reporter-Researchers: Rosemary Byrnes, Oscar Chiang, Adrianne Jucius Navon (Senior Staff); Jeffery C. Rubin, Sribala Subramanian...