Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Background

Participants

Governments

Chinese	Republic of China Kuomintang Communist China Chinese Communist Party
Japanese and collaborators	Empire of Japan Manchukuo Mengjiang East Hebei Autonomous Government Great Way Government Provisional Chinese Government Reformed Chinese Government Wang Jingwei regime

Armed Forces

Chinese	Nationalist Armed Forces Army Air Force Navy Marine Corps Communist Armed Forces Eighth Route Army New Fourth Army Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army
Japanese and collaborators	Imperial Japanese Armed Forces Army Army Air Service Navy Navy Air Service Naval Infantry Manchukuo Armed Forces Army Air Force Navy Guards Inner Mongolian Army East Hebei Army Collaborationist Chinese Army

Political Leaders

Chinese	Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong Lin Sen Kung Hsiang-hsi Soong Tse-ven He Yingqin Chen Cheng Zhang Wentian Wang Ruofei Ren Bishi
Japanese and collaborators	Emperor Hirohito Fumimaro Konoe Kiichirō Hiranuma Nobuyuki Abe Mitsumasa Yonai Hideki Tojo Kuniaki Koiso Kantarō Suzuki Naruhiko Higashikuni Seishirō Itagaki Shunroku Hata Korechika Anami Mitsumasa Yonai Zengo Yoshida Shigetarō Shimada Puyi Zhang Jinghui Yu Zhishan Demchugdongrub Wang Jingwei Chen Gongbo Chi Zongmo Wang Kemin Liang Hongzhi Ren Yuandao Bao Wenyue

Military Leaders

Chinese	Bai Chongxi Yan Xishan Sun Li-jen Ma Zhanshan
Japanese and collaborators	Prince Kan'in Kotohito Hajime Sugiyama Yoshijirō Umezu Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu Osami Nagano Soemu Toyoda Koshirō Oikawa Li Shouxin Ye Peng Yang Kuiyi

Course of War

Campaigns	Shanghai campaign Taiyuan campaign Nanjing campaign Bombing of Chongqing Northern and Eastern Henan Wuhan campaign Xuzhou campaign Nanchang campaign Suixian–Zaoyang campaign 1939 Changsha campaign First Guangxi campaign 1939–1940 Winter Offensive Zaoyang–Yichang campaign Hundred Regiments Offensive South Henan campaign Shanggao campaign Zhongtiao Mountains campaign 1941 Changsha campaign 1941-1942 Changsha campaign Japanese invasion of Burma Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign Linnan campaign Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan West Hubei campaign Changde campaign 1944 Burma campaign Operation Ichi-Go 1944-1945 Burma campaign West Henan–North Hubei campaign Zhijiang campaign Second Guangxi campaign
Major Battles	Battle of Lanfeng Battle of Central Henan 1944 Battle of Changsha Siege of Myitkyina Battle of Mount Song Battle of Hengyang Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou
Incidents	Tientsin Incident (1931) January 28 incident Pingdingshan massacre North Chahar incident Xi'an Incident Murder of Pamela Werner Marco Polo Bridge Incident Langfang Incident Guanganmen incident Tongzhou mutiny Zhengding Missionary Murder Nanking Massacre USS Panay incident Kweilin incident 1938 Dalfram dispute Tientsin Incident (1939) Kaimingjie germ weapon attack Execution of Huang Yiguang New Fourth Army incident Panjiayu massacre Rape of Nancheng Zhejiang-Jiangxi massacres Changjiao massacre Gegenmiao massacre
Political events	Nine Power Treaty Conference Konoe Declarations Yan'an Rectification Movement Cairo Conference United Nations Conference on International Organization Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance Hirohito surrender broadcast Chongqing Negotiations Surrender of Japan

Aftermath
Occupation of Japan Double Tenth Agreement Retrocession Day Chinese Communist Revolution Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance Treaty of San Francisco Treaty of Taipei Murayama Statement

Related topics

Lists	Aerial engagements Army groups of the National Revolutionary Army Japanese Aircraft Japanese armoured fighting vehicles Japanese campaigns Japanese infantry weapons Military engagements
Military	Anti-Japanese resistance volunteers in China American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers Soviet Volunteer Group Soviet invasion of Manchuria
Political	Sino-German cooperation Free China Lend-Lease Declaration by United Nations
Others	Japanese propaganda Kumul Rebellion On Practice People's war On Protracted War Chinese Muslims in the Second Sino-Japanese War Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan Ip Man 1939 Japanese expedition to Tibet Japanese occupation of Hong Kong Dixie Mission Wartime perception of the Chinese Communists Stubborn Army

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