China and World War II (TRIH ep 236, part 2)
1941 · 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.
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Around 1941
- Korean War (1950)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)