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China in 1941

Historical records for China in 1941, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

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5Events
4Named people
1Places
4Categories

Historical records

January

January 1941Southern Anhui Incident ResponseZhou Enlai

Chongqing · Politics / Chinese Communist Party

Protests Nationalist action against the New Fourth Army and works to preserve the anti-Japanese united front.

December

9 December 1941Formal Declaration of War on JapanChiang Kai-Shek

Chongqing · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Nationalist China formally declares war on Japan after the Pacific War begins, ending the earlier undeclared legal status of the conflict.

December 1941Supreme Commander of China TheaterChiang Kai-Shek

Chongqing · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Assumes the role of Supreme Commander of the China Theater as China becomes a formal Allied belligerent in the wider Pacific War.

Other Events

1941Alliance Mao Tse-Tung and Russian backed KuomingtangMao Tse-Tung

Politics / Communist Party

After Pearl Harbor the CP is forced into an alliance with the Russian backed Kuomingtang

1941Alliance Mao Tse-Tung and Russian backed KuomingtangMao Tse-Tung

Warfare / World War, 2nd

After Pearl Harbor the CP is forced into an alliance with the Russian backed Kuomingtang

1941Arrest of Ho Chi MinhChang Fa-kwei

Government / Government of China

Arrests Ho Chi Minh in order to strengthen his own influece in north Vietnam

Names involved

Chang Fa-kweiChiang Kai-ShekMao Tse-TungZhou Enlai

Places involved

Chongqing

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.