Usage Public Domain Contributor Eric Spiegelman

"The Battle of China," Chapter VI of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight"

series, explains why the Empire of Japan possessed such a strong

interest in ruling the disparate lands of China. In an attempt to break

the will of the Chinese people in one massive assault, Japan invades

Nanking and massacres forty thousand civilians. The attack results in

an opposite effect, galvanizing the Chinese resistance and unifying the

separate lands into a single Chinese identity. While the Japanese take

control of all Chinese ports, hoping to cut off all resources from its

victim, China's allies effectuate an engineering miracle. They

construct the seven hundred mile long Burma Road over the mountains of

Myanmar, and set up a constant caravan of trucks to ship food and

materiel to the Chinese armies, keeping them alive. Frustrated by their

inability to conquer China, the Japanese turn their attention to the

islands of the Pacific, and the United States.

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