The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945 · THE MAP IN JUL 1937

Map of Asia and the Pacific in July 1937

War in China · WW2

Asia and the Pacific in July 1937: War in China. The map shows who held what: Western Allies, Axis powers, Soviet Union.

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Map of Asia and the Pacific in July 1937 (WW2): War in China. Colours show Western Allies, Axis powers, Soviet Union. — JUL 1937 · THE WAR ROOM — WW2, 1936–1945

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · US Army Center of Military History — American Military History, The War Against Japan · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Natural Earth — physical reference geography

Source details

Office of the Chief of Military History,1969, chapter23. Official US Army text and maps; public domain
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Natural Earth. Public domain

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

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Layer records and reconstruction methods

On the ground

Manchuria ruled as the Japanese puppet “Manchukuo”
Southern Sakhalin (Karafuto) under Japanese rule

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