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The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. Other scholars consider the start of the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to have been the beginning of World War II. Some scholars consider the European War and the Pacific War to be entirely separate, albeit concurrent wars.

After the Japanese attacks on Malaya and Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged with other conflicts which are generally categorized under those conflicts of World War II as a major sector known as the China Burma India Theater.

Ĭhina fought Japan with aid from the Soviet Union and the United States. It was also to expand the outer reaches of the Japanese Empire to create a formidable defensive perimeter around newly acquired territory. Pacific fleet, capture oil fields in the Dutch East Indies, and maintain their sphere of influence in East Asia. The strategic goals of the offensive were to destroy the U.S. Over the course of seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island, the Dutch Empire in the Dutch East Indies, Thailand and on the British Empire in Borneo, Malaya and Hong Kong. and other Western allies of World War II began with the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. On 27 September it signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. )Īs part of its operations against China, on 22 September 1940 Japan invaded French Indochina. (However, according to the Chinese Ministry of Education, it marked only a phase in a 14-year war that began with the 1931 invasion of Manchuria. This full-scale war between the Chinese and the Empire of Japan is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. The beginning of the war is conventionally dated to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on 7 July 1937, when a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops in Peking escalated into a full-scale invasion. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War. The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.