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236. China and World War II (Part 2)

The Rest Is History

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The Flooding of the Yellow River Dykes in China

During ninete 37 to forty five, i would say that a there's probably three key moments. The flooding of the yellow river dykes helps to erode popular support for the nationalists. And then fars forwarding to near te end of the war, the moment when it then seems that the whole thing just collapse is during the middle of operation ichigoese thrust into central china. Happens at the same time as two other great campaigns on the western side against the japanese. So had it not been for the sudden manchuria invasion and atomic bombings in mid-1940s, china has basically fought back with its last resources. But by this stage we were

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