Chinese Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Yellow River flood (1938)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Yellow River flood”
9 Jun 1938 — To halt the drive on Wuhan, Nationalist engineers breach the Yellow River dikes at Huayuankou — without warning the villages below. The river swings south across three provinces: hundreds of thousands drown or starve (estimates run 500,000–900,000), millions flee. It slows Japan by months. Whether anything can justify it is a question this map leaves open. Remember Huayuankou.
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- Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–38) (chapter 8 of Chinese Revolution)
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- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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