USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Nanjing Massacre, also called Rape of Nanjing (December 1937–January 1938), was the mass killing and the ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, on December 13, 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War that preceded World War II.

Detailed explanation-2: -The task of occupying Nanking was given to General Iwane Matsui, the commander of Japan’s Central China Area Army, who believed that the capture of Nanking would force China to surrender and thus end the war.

Detailed explanation-3: -Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931.

Detailed explanation-4: -In December of 1937, during this war, the Japanese military invaded Nanjing, China and engaged in a campaign of mass killing. The Japanese army marched from Shanghai, a port city 190 miles down the Yangtze River, to Nanjing.