1933-05-31

Tanggu Truce

Tanggu, TianjinTanggu · China and Japan signed a truce after the Jehol and North China fighting, leaving a demilitarized buffer problem in North China.

Other events in this phase

Second Sino Japanese War81
  1. Jehol campaign
  2. Defense of the Great Wall
  3. Japan gives notice of League withdrawal
  4. Tanggu TruceCurrent record
  5. Fujian People’s Government established
  6. Long March: Leaving Ruijin
  7. Long March: Yudu crossing
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Context

The Tanggu Truce did not settle the conflict; it produced an unstable North China boundary between Japanese influence and Chinese administration. It is a bridge to the tensions before the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

Sources

The Academia Sinica Institute of Modern History article is checked against the Britannica war overview.

Media

Tanggu Truce mapVisual recordTanggu Truce mapA map situating the Tanggu Truce and its North China buffer-zone implications.

Source Trail

Scholarly SourceInstitute of Modern History, Academia Sinica · Tanggu Truce research PDFOpen sourceReferenceEncyclopaedia Britannica · Second Sino-Japanese WarOpen sourceMap RecordWikimedia Commons · Tanggu Truce Map.jpgOpen source