China at War - Pacific War #0.5 DOCUMENTARY

Small island nation japan is at war against china and usa at same time and humiliating them for almost 4 years

Pretty good briefing of what should be considered the start of WW2.There have been declassified documents and a published Diary of Chaing Kai-shek that will change the narrative of some of the history of this. Chaing always knew he'd have to fight Japan but wanted to have the military strength before commuting to it. His purging of Communists though was ongoing right up until just before the Battle of Shanghai which The Nationalists initiated incidentally. To anyone wanting to immerse themself into this era and region of history, Richard Frank would be a good recommendation with some pretty comprehensive research to offer.
The breaching of levees on the Yellow River just might of been Chaing Kai shek's worst decision of the conflict as the repercussions played out . . . arguably.

the battle of nankou 1937 was fought very well by tang enbo's men especially Luo Fanggui's 1000 man 529th regiment which held off attacks of the elite 10000 man kwantung army 11th mixed brigade on nankou long enough for reinforcements to come and drag the japanese down. in total the nankou campaign had 16,000 chinese casualties and 15,000 japanese casualties in 18 days

Battle of Wuhan or Wuhan COVID-19 virus?

Good stuff 👍 Thank you 💜

Having heard about the rape of Nanking the one thing I never knew was that it was the capital at the time. You learn something everyday especially with Kings and Generals. ..😊

Ironic that the guy was right. Communism is a shit stain that only the week minded idiots want as a government.

Chiang was absolutely correct on communism. Mao was the second evil man in long Chinese history only after Qin Shi Huang.

Why do these Symbols look similar to hoi4?

I really have to admire Chiang and the Kuomintang. Despite losing battle after battle to the technologically superior Japanese Empire, the Kuomintang adamantly refused to even consider surrender to the Japanese.

The Kuomintang dug their heels in and matched the Japanese in ruthless defiance. Even if it meant destroying their dykes and flooding the countryside to slow the Japanese down, if it meant sacrificing whole cities to the Japanese invaders just to buy time for their own forces to regroup, even if it meant strapping bombs to their own soldiers and turning them into anti-tank rockets, the Chinese did it.

The irony is that modern China is only able to become a great power because the Kuomintang paid blood for China's future.

My father had to stop his study at Beijing University as a freshman and joint the army in the Summer 1937. He lost his parents and fiancee during this 8-year war. By 1945 when the war finally ended, he had nothing left except never ending sorrow and tiredness.

Well they ended really bad hahaha and they and their dream dead tho

There wasn't 4000 japanese marines in shanghai at the start, there were much more. more than 10,000 marines, the japanese secretly violated the limit of troops which they could put in shanghai

An often overlooked fact is that Japan considered attacking the Soviet Union during Barbarossa. One main reason it decided to move south was due to the large number of troops tied up in China. In hindsight, that could have been one of the most critical moves for the Axis to win the war.

pls do chinese Cilver war video pls 🙏 😢 😭 8.00pm the first 🙏 😢

"Communism was Cancer while the Japanese only represented a superficial wound." Turns out to be completely true in the long run.

To painfull to watch, if this was a human fight China would be with broken fingers, exposed fractures, without an eye and with broken ribs but still fighting japan, which only has a broken nose

As far as I know, Li Zongren wasnt a warlord, he was a common general, this oculd had been a translation mistake, since Li's nickname was "god of war" or "lord of the war"

Too bad Dr. Sun Yat Sen passed away before China reunited.

To anyone who still questions why the US nuked Japan, read up about the Nanking Massacre and subsequent atrocities committed by the IJN in Pacific countries. My grandparents lived through the Japanese occupation.

Great Video!

China isn’t just a land of resources and land, it’s also the home of the Chinese people, who has the right to take it from them? And it’s also European colonialism not expansionism, stop trying to whitewash European imperialism.

you know china war a lot which impress me as a chinese

ONE DAY, WHEN I ASKED A GROUP OF WESTERN PEOPLE

WHO ARE THE ENEMY OF CHINA DURING WW2?

NO ONE KNOW AND A WESTERN PERSON SAID:

MAY BE THE GERMAN?

I SAID: JAPANESE

THANKS FOR YOU! YOU TELL THE HISTORY OF CHINA DURING WW2. THIS HISTORY FOR MANY WESTERN PEOPLE ARE STILL UNKNOWN

Yeah what a hero Mao is, running back to his mountain after ww2 and backstab the KMT

This is a very interesting series.

ur China map is so wrong, Tibet, West Turkmenistan n inner Mongolia are n were near part of China. seems u r pro-chinese

War with China in the Pacific is definitely inevitable. Ji Jing Ping and the CCP...has been leading the world once again into War....
The Ukraine crisis with Russia is a mere squabble compared to what is about to kick off..... South East Asia and the Pacific Island nations will easily be overcome. Australia...and in turn New Zealand will have no chance to put up any meaningful resistance.....The US too...will suffer......

I love that you used HoI4 icons for the editing. Truly a person of culture.

中国の今があるのは欧米のお陰。
しかし、今の中国はそれを忘れ、敵対する。

Anyone know what the soundtrack during the last 5 minutes was?

Chiang knew in his heart that the Japanese were the real threat to control the lifeblood of the Chinese nation. But he could not show his anti-japanese stance as ordinary people did, and he had to secretly prepare for it.
Chiang Kai-shek's diaries
1:“借剿共以收复西南”
“In the name of eliminating the Communist Party, to recover the southwest region”
2:“剿共为掩护，抗日之原则”
The elimination of the Communist Party is a superficial cover, and the pursuit of resistance against Japan is the real principle

According to Chiang's diary, he deliberately set free the remnants of the Red Army for the Long March, thus infiltrating his central forces into the southwest as a base for future resistance against Japan. As a matter of fact, Chiang Kai-shek, who had an army of one million at that time, did not pay any attention to the ten to twenty thousand remaining Communists. What he really cared about was how to draw in the warlord forces for anti-japanese preparations. But the young Zhang xueliang, influenced by communist propaganda against Japan, rashly launched the Xi 'an Incident and upset Chiang's plans. Eventually Chiang kai-shek was forced to join forces with the Communists against Japan, and what remained of the Communist party survived. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Red Army gradually grew stronger, which made Chiang Kai-shek take the communist threat seriously.

how is shaving ur balls called male hygiene. i dont get it

Based Chiang.

One of my favorite things I’ve read was that when the Japanese admirals and generals were arguing for a war with the U.S. the Emperor said that they were still at war with China. Which a general responded that China was a vast country, which the Emperor then brought up the point that the pacific is more vast than China so if they can’t win in China what makes them think they’d win in the pacific. Of course he was eventually convinced, but I thought it was funny at the poor choice of words and logic used by the general.

North border of the Qing Dynasty is wrong! Mongolia was part of China at that time

If the US didn’t help us, our balls would have been kicked to dust

Man Yuan Shikai was kinda like the Dong Zhou of his time haha

What Hankow? I only know Wuhan.

the playlist being backwards is messing me up lmao

"PRC will be very easy to defeat, because: It never has a war experience even once, war troops are non qualified, and it war tools are fake and second class quality!"

Great topic hardly covered. Commenting for the algorithm

The opening soundtrack is just awesome... it gives every episode its own great prelude! Same for the podcasts, of course. Does anyone know where can the music be found??

Japan: We will attack China when they are divided and weak! Ends turn

China: Unites

Japan: Surprised Pickachu Face

China had everything but Britain had nothing so the govt of Britain peddled OPIUM to the Chinese People to tuen them into drug addicts. Japan wanted to outdo the West so its worst became the best for China. Good riddance to CKS regime it was the cancer led by a sickly coward who fled to Taiwan , lived an extravagant lifestyle & would have sold out China & he did. He paid mercenaries The Flying Tigers recruited from USA stayed only9 months then was disbanded by Hap Arnold, USA was only in the war for USA PRIMACY alone certainly not for China & NO FRIEND !