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236. China and World War II (Part 2)
The Rest Is History
The Blasting of the Yellow River Dykes
In the spring of 19 38, china's dfenders were desperate. It was very clear that the defence of shangai hadn't worked. The government had retreated to southwest in the interior. But much of central china, provinces like hanan an rabe, were basically in china's bread basket areas. And by blasting these huge, immensely carefully built dikes that held back the yellow river and created, you know, huge swathes of agricultural land,. By blasting them, they would cause a flood that would basically inundatehuge swathes of central ch China. They would be stopped in in their tracks. To do that, they had to do it without warning.
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