Nanjing Massacre
1937–1938 · Event
Japanese forces murder and rape hundreds of thousands in the Chinese capital.
On these timelines: Master, China, World War II, Japan
Around 1937
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)