China and World War II (TRIH eps 235-236)
1937 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian Rana Mitter about China’s experience in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). The discussion opens with the Nanjing Massacre (December 1937–January 1938) and moves to broader wartime dynamics: why brutality occurred, variation in Japanese imperial rule, and other massacres such as Suzhou. Mitter explains Chiang Kai-shek’s defensive strategy, the controversial blasting of the Yellow River dikes in 1938 and the resulting deaths and...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1937
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Great Depression (1929)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)