The 2nd Sino-Japanese War & Chinese Civil War 1927-1949 (Full Documentary)

Get Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realtimehistory Watch 16 Days in Berlin: https://nebula.tv/videos/16-days-in-b... China was constantly at war from the late 1920s to the early 1950s, including becoming one of the largest fronts of the Second World War. The Japanese invasion and followed by the resumption of the Chinese Civil War between nationalists and communists would have huge global ramifications. But to understand how the wars for China began, we need to go a little further back to a time of great Chinese vulnerability. » SUPPORT US Patreon: realtimehistory https://nebula.tv/realtimehistory CHAPTERS 00:00 Chinese Civil War 1927-1937 25:05 Japanese Invasion 1937 45:05 Battle of Wuhan 1938 01:07:44 Road to Pearl Harbor 1939-41 01:28:15 Chinese Front 1942-1943 01:49:43 2nd Sino-Japanese War 1944-1945 02:14:19 Chinese Civil War 1945-1949 » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Rose Flaglor, Reed Spilmann, Jim Frame, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Mitter, Rana. China’s War with Japan 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival. Penguin, 2013. Paine, Sarah C. M. The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Frank, Richard. Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937 – May 1942. W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. Van de Ven, Hans. "Campaigns in China 1937-1945" in John Ferris and Evan Mawdsley, eds. The Cambridge HIstory of the Second World War, vol I: Fighting the War. Cambridge UP, 2015. Dorn, Frank, The Sino-Japanese War: From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor, 1937-41, (New York, NY : MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1974) Henshaw, Jonathan, Smith, Craig A. & Smith, Norman (eds), Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931-45, (Vancouver : UBC Press, 2021) Hsu Long-hsuen & Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), (Taipei : Chung Wu Publishing Co., 1971) »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander, Mark Newton Director: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller, Philipp Appelt Motion Design: Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Jesse Alexander, Mark Newton Fact checking: Florian Wittig, Mark Newton Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images, picture alliance, and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. We do not use generative AI to create new assets. However, we may use AI tools to upscale or clean up certain assets without distorting or compromising the original image. All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2025