The document summarizes key events in several countries between World War I and World War II. It discusses the formation of the League of Nations after WWI and various international agreements. For France, it notes economic struggles and efforts to rebuild infrastructure and defenses against Germany. In China, it outlines the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 and the rise of the Nationalist and Communist parties, including Mao Zedong's Long March. For Japan, it summarizes its victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, expansion into Manchuria, growing militarism influenced by WWI, and the 1937 war with China.
30. Chiang Kai-shek runs the KMT and runs the Communists out. Mao Zedong and his followers begin the Long March
31. China Oct 1934, the Chinese Communist Army was facing annihilation, surrounded by hundred thousand Nationalist soldiers. 86,000 begin the Long March- 4,000 miles only 10,000 survive
42. Japan & Manchuria Russo-Japanese War of 1905 What is the big deal? First war to demonstrate an Asian country could defeat a European power
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47. Rape of Nanjing In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder an estimated 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war.
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50. Japan & China War 1937 What is the big deal? This war created negative chaos that weakened European control over China and enabled Mao and communism to come to power and destroy all aspects of European colonialism in China.