Homework 2; term 3

Identify three major sea, land, or air practices of the Chinese Civil War.

Land:

Extermination Campaign: in 1936, Chiang Kaishek ignored the Communists demand for a unite front of all the Chinese against Japan. So, in 1936 he created another extermination campaign against the Communists and he sent his Army to attack their bases. He told his army to destroy the Yanan Soviet. In order to do this, bomber aircraft, tanks, armored cars and poison gas were all made available for use.

United Front: This agreement was made, yet the Japanese decided to fight against China before they became too strong. Without even declaring war, they began an invasion of Chinese territory, where they aimed to conquer their entire country.

Occupation of Railroads: Japan didn't make any more advances on China after this, because they didn't have enough manpower to occupy all of China due to the fact that they were so small. Even in the areas that Japan did occupy, they were never able to have total control, because when they started to move away from Manchuria, they had to leave some areas unguarded, which allowed the Chinese to move back into the areas and take control again. However, from 1938 to 1944, the Japanese occupied the large cities, important railways, airfields, ports and roads... and the Chinese occupied the countryside. The Japanese focussed on destroying Chiang Kaishck's wartime government, and they bombed it to an extreme amount.

Air:

In April 1944, the Japanese aimed at destroying the American airfields in south-east China. However, this ended quickly, and the entire war actually came to an end in 1945, when the Americans used an atomic bomb to destroy Hiroshima (one of the Japanese cities that hadn't yet been destroyed by the bombs.)

Sea:

America's involvement: In 1941, Japan had around two million men in China. However, In December of that same year, something happened which improved China's problems. The US declared war on Japan after Japan attacked the American naval base (Pearl Harbor.) Then, American airfields built in south-east China allowed American bombers to destroy Japan's sea trade and cut off almost all of her imports.