The Road to War, 1931–1941 · THE MAP IN OCT 1938

Map of East Asia and the Pacific in October 1938

Wuhan and Canton fall · road to WW2

East Asia and the Pacific in October 1938: Wuhan and Canton fall. The map shows who held what: Colonial empires & possessions, The aggressors (Japan, Germany, Italy), Democracies & powers fighting them.

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Map of East Asia and the Pacific in October 1938 (road to WW2): Wuhan and Canton fall. Colours show Colonial empires & possessions, The aggressors (Japan, Germany, Italy), Democracies & powers fighting them. — OCT 1938 · THE ROAD TO WAR, 1931–1941

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · US diplomatic records — Jehol occupation,March1933 · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · USMA: Japanese Occupation, 1940

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
US diplomatic records — Jehol occupation,March1933. Historical facts consulted; no source artwork or prose republished
Natural Earth. Public domain
United States Military Academy, Department of History, Digital History Center. Source-map facts used for independent geographic reconstruction; original chart artwork is not republished

The separately published Tibetan polity remains neutral. The authored modern-China interaction region does not make Tibet a Chinese battlefield or Allied-controlled territory.

Late October 1938 retains the 1938 Japanese outline and adds only the local Wuhan and Canton changes from the 1939 source. The future conquests of Hainan and Nanchang remain outside.

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Layer records and reconstruction methods

On the ground

Japan occupied cities and rail lines in eastern China, but never the interior.
Japan took the Canton pocket in October 1938 to close south China’s ports.

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CH 6 — Second Sino-Japanese War

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