Nanjing Massacre
1937–1938 · Event
Following the capture of Nanjing, Japanese troops perpetrate mass killings of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers, widespread rape and other atrocities in the city and surrounding area.
On these timelines: Master, China, World War II, Japan
Around 1937
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)