1939-01-01

Shandong anti-Japanese base areas expand

Shandong anti-Japanese base areasShandong anti-Japanese base areas expand is a base-area politics record around Shandong anti-Japanese base areas, situated in the attritional-war phase in which rear capitals, guerrilla bases, and occupation administrations hardened. It belongs to the wider reshaping of the mainland Chinese front and political map.

Other events in this phase

China Total War and Rear Areas118
  1. Changsha Fire
  2. Nanyue military conference
  3. Hubei-Henan-Anhui base areas reorganized
  4. Shandong anti-Japanese base areas expandCurrent record
  5. Hainan Island operation
  6. Nanchang campaign
  7. Suixian-Zaoyang campaign
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Wartime Position

the attritional phase where rear capitals, occupation rule, guerrilla bases, and Allied supply routes coexisted

Shandong anti-Japanese base areas expand is a base-area politics record around Shandong anti-Japanese base areas, situated in the attritional-war phase in which rear capitals, guerrilla bases, and occupation administrations hardened. It belongs to the wider reshaping of the mainland Chinese front and political map.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around Shandong anti-Japanese base areas clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

Eighth Route Army Shandong Column crossing the Yi River, 1938 and Wikimedia Commons · Shandong Column crosses the Yi River, 1938 provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Eighth Route Army Shandong Column crossing the Yi River, 1938Visual recordEighth Route Army Shandong Column crossing the Yi River, 1938A December 1938 photograph of the Eighth Route Army Shandong Column crossing the Yi River toward the anti-Japanese front, anchoring the Shandong base-area expansion. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Shandong anti-Japanese base areas expand.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · Shandong Column crosses the Yi River, 1938Open source