What is Second Sino-Japanese War?
{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Second Sino-Japanese War | place = [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]] | partof = The [[Second World War]] | date = 7 July 1937 - 2 September 1945 | image = Second Sino-Japanese War WW2.png | result = [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Chinese]] victory | combatant1 = {{flagcountry|Nationalist government}} * {{flagicon|Republic of China (1912–1949)|KMT}} [[KMT|Nationalists]] * {{flagicon|Republic of China (1912–1949)|CCP}} [[CPC|Communists]] {{flag|United States|1912}} (from 1941) | combatant2 = {{flag|Empire of Japan|name=Japan}} * {{flag|Manchukuo}} * {{flag|Mengjiang}} * {{flag|Wang Jingwei regime|1943}} | commander1 = {{plainlist| * {{flagicon|Republic of China (1912–1949)}} [[Chiang Kai-shek]] * {{flagicon|Republic of China (1912–1949)|CCP}} [[Mao Zedong]] * {{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] [[Death by natural causes|#]] * {{flagicon|United States|1912}} [[Harry S. Truman]]}} | commander2 = {{plainlist| * {{flagicon|Empire of Japan|emperor}} [[Hirohito|Emperor Shōwa]] * {{flagicon|Empire of Japan|army}} [[Hideki Tojo]]}} | caption = The war in 1940 | campaignbox = {{WWIITheatre}} }} The '''Second Sino-Japanese War''' (July 7, 1937 to September 2, 1945) was a major [[war]] fought between the [[China|Republic of China]] and the [[Japan|Empire of Japan]]. It became part of [[World War II]] when Japan entered that war on the side of the [[Axis powers]]. Part of the Sino-Japanese war was fought in northern [[Myanmar]] and northeastern [[India]]. The war ended when Japan surrendered after the [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]. It started in 1937, 43 years after the [[First Sino-Japanese War]] in 1894, led by [[Emperor Meiji]] who was the [[Grandfather]] of [[Hirohito]]. == Invasion of China == The Second Sino-Japanese War began when Japan [[Invasion|invaded]] China in 1931. Japan used the [[Mukden Incident]] as an excuse to invade China. The invasion grew into a full-scale [[war]] in 1937 aft