With the Japanese attack against the Western Allies in 1941, the conflict between China and Japan entered the decisive phase. Only one of these two powers would be able to survive the war.

Maps: Army Map Service, USA; USGS.
Sources:
History of the SinoJapanese War (19371945) by Hsu LongHsuen, and Chang MingKai.
Japanese Monographs: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japan...
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the SinoJapanese War of 19371945

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00:04 IJN battleship Nagato and her all crewmembers. Taken in 1937.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes...
00:06 Chinese children in Nanking residential area.December 20, 1937)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... ; China Incident Photograph Album Volume 2(Shina Jihen Shashin Zenshu Vol. 2), published in 1938 by Asahi Shimbun.
00:07 Japanese occupation of Peiping, on August 13, 1937
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... ; http://www.researchhistory.org/2011/0...
01:33 USS California sinking Pearl Harbor
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... ; National Archives and Records Administration
03:18 The burning Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu, 5 June 1942.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes... ; Naval History and Heritage Command
04:23 Line of American P40 fighter planes at a flying field somewhere in China.
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubor:... ; National Archives and Records Administration
06:07 A sinking Japanese merchant ship at Truk Lagoon.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... ; U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation
08:01 Chinese soldiers along the Salween River near Burma., ca. 06/1943
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... ; National Archives and Records Administration
08:29 A soldier of the Revolutionary Army with artilleries in Taoyuan 1945
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... ; 意象台灣影像資料庫
10:00 Mushroom cloud above Nagasaki after atomic bombing on August 9, 1945.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man... ; National Archives and Records Administration
The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of Little Boy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_... ; National Archives and Records Administration
10:11 General Yoshijiro Umezu, signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, 2 September 1945.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiji... ; National Archives and Records Administration

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