Chinese Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Yellow River flood (1938)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Yellow River flood”
9 Jun 1938 — Nationalist engineers breached the Yellow River dikes at Huayuankou to slow the Japanese drive on Wuhan. The villages downstream received no warning. The river swept south across three provinces; hundreds of thousands drowned or starved, with estimates of 500,000–900,000 dead, and millions fled. Japan was delayed by months. Whether anything could justify the decision 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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