50: Second Sino-Japanese War Pt. 1 - Background

History of the Second World War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

During the 1930s China would experience a devastating invasion. This invasion was launched by the Japanese who were trying to obtain greater access to the natural resources available in Manchuria and northern China. The result would be the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, a devastating conflict, and perhaps the start of the Second World War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	Music Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, Episode 50, the second
0:48.2	Sino-Japanese War part one background.
0:51.4	This week I would like to remind everyone that you can find the podcast on Twitter
0:54.9	at World War II Pod and Facebook at History of the Second World War. The podcast also has a
1:00.6	Discord server if you'd like to come hang out with other listeners just like you, as well as myself,
1:05.5	which I hope you see as a positive. If you were to ask anyone when the Second World War started, and if you were to ask on
1:12.2	that Discord server I just mentioned, I think it's safe to assume that the answer would be
1:16.4	1939 with the invasion of Poland. That event would bring in many other nations into the war against
1:22.1	Germany. Obviously, this is a very valid view of events, and I'm not going to say that 1939 is a wrong answer. But here in the introduction to this series on the Second Sino-Japanese War, I would like to present the case for why another possible answer revolves around events in China. July 1937 is probably the best date, or the date with the best claim, which is the traditional
1:45.0	date applied to the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War with the Marco Prolo Bridge
1:49.6	incident near Peking, and then the Battle of Shanghai, which would greatly escalate the
1:53.6	fighting happening shortly thereafter.
1:55.8	You might even be able to make the case that the date would be earlier, perhaps with
1:59.6	the Manchurian incident, which occurred in
2:01.3	1931, and which will be discussed in this episode. However, I'm generally inclined to not consider
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