<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" id="mwew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">Second Sino-Japanese War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nanking" id="mwfA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Nanking">Battle of Nanking</a>: The city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nanjing">Nanjing</a>, defended by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Revolutionary_Army" id="mwfg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="National Revolutionary Army">National Revolutionary Army</a> under the command of General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Shengzhi" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tang Shengzhi">Tang Shengzhi</a>, falls to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Empire of Japan">Japanese</a>. This is followed by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nanking Massacre">Nanking Massacre</a>, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.