The Chinese suffered the 2nd highest total casualties next to the Soviet Union. Not many know this. The video seemed to provide a conservative number for military casualties, but keep in mind many millions of civillians who died due to military causes are likely to be forgotten.
Hitchhike the World Because the U.S. played a pivotal role in defeating Germany in Western Europe. But yes, Chinese involvement in WW2 is probably not even known to a lot of Americans.
@@maxwellli7057 the movie "800 Heroes", 1977 Taiwanese film, is about the Battle of Shanghai, and the Defense of the Sihang Warehouse towards the British convention when a battalion from the 88th Division was arrested by the British Army and seized. There used to be an English version of the movie, but I couldn't find it anymore... ruclips.net/video/oPcuE-47irA/видео.html There are a lot of army groups in China. The Northern Sichuan army, province part of China, one of the poorest part of China; one battalion, only had enough grenades to support 1-4 American or German soldiers. So, the Sichuan army, fought by the hand with broadswords, spears and long bows. The Central Army group took part in major battles, like Shanghai, a bit of Nanking, Wuhan, and etc. While army groups like, the communist new fourth army, 8th route army, or Nationalist northern Sichuan army, fought in small guerilla battles in villages, and mountains, and not really in the major international cities.
Intel: The light blue uniforms of the Chinese Armies are for winter and the khaki / Yellow uniforms are for summer. There was no real standardization and weapons were a mixture of several types. Notice how Taiwan's flag is the same as the KMT? In 1949 What remained of the Nationalists fled to Taiwan establishing a new capital.
My grandpa fought the Japanese invaders. He was only 16 at the time and was badly injured nearly a year later. He fought on after recovery, but a long, scary scar was left on his chin.
You despicable practitioners paired up, our former China caused a huge mining industry. Please apologize to Japan, as well as Unit 731 and the Nanjing Massacre😡😡😡😡
Sharar S.A. What you said is not true. In fact it was quite the other way around. The allied force namely US And UK often don't care about China and the fact that it needs to fight Japanese in their territories while demanding Chinese force to respond to US/UK's need. Also if China didn't do enough to fight the Japanese, US can forget about the kia they got in their battles, because the Japanese can easily used forces in China to to reinforce those in the pacific. So it is exactly because China held its ground and hold the Japanese down. So quit yapping about China not doing enough, it because western historian just don't care about the history in this part of the world.
Hugo Gong Communists WANTED the united front. Chiang’s generals literally had to force him at gunpoint to sign a truce. Nationalists are traitors to the chinese people, Chiang would have gladly handed China to Japan if it meant he could stay in power.
The Chinese Civil war started in 1927 and didn't end until 1949. Hot damn that's 22 years of war. Just imagine if the American civil lasted that long there would be nobody left!
Marty Moose It starts at 1912，1927 is the year KMT starts war vs red amy. before that is warlord period. basicly from 1840 to 1950 just 100 years wars. after that, you have great leap forward, culture revolution under Mao until 1976. well, talking about suffering....
@@fuqiancui5046 It started since 1895 when the Tongmenghui began trying to wrest power from the Qing. 1894 if you include the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War
The civil war was actually not all 22 years. It was two parts. 27-37 and paused until 45 due to the full scale japanese invasions. Resumed shortly after their surrender until 49 when the communists emerged victorious. If you are wanting to look deeper into the second part of the civil war, the decisive battles were the 3 great campaigns. The Pingjing, liaoshen, and Huaihai.
My great grandfather was a general who served the KMT. I hate when people just leave out the war efforts of China in WWII, especially because they suffered so many casualties (civilian and soldier) thank you Simple History for making this video.
same my grandparents were high ranking officials in the KMT and had to flee to Taiwan in order to escape the Communists. Despite the clear resentment of the Communist party, my grandpa still hates the Japanese more. He even scolded me about how much anime I watch.
@@asiankid7334 That’s really unfortunate. Japanese atrocities can be unforgettable. My grandpa and great aunt (Korean) had Japanese names, and I’ve been told they hated those names.
Bullet-Tooth Tony militarily in terms of numbers and gear, yes, in terms of experience and skill, absolutely no, American and Russian soldiers would massacre the PLA in open and even assymetric warfare.
China fought the Japanese for eight years (1937-1945). With almost zero support from the Western nations. As a result, they had the second highest number of fatalities. With 14 million people dying over the war, and China losing most of its hard earned modernisation.
Yup they've been a punching bag for years. But if warn't for their resistance and being persevere against the well trained and well equipped Japanese, more than millions would be added to the Japanese cause (Which is Japan's plans for world domination. China's Man Power). And U.S. would've been push back easily by the Imperialists.
China during the interwar period and world war 2 was very interesting. The KMT, CPC, and Warlords relied on foreign weapons and equipment to modernize the military. As you may know, the Czech ZB vz 26 was a very popular LMG in China during the war.
Jason Denton Maybe the whole no North Korea And I don't think there would be a push for aggressive land claims since there is no Taiwan to invade. The whole south China sea is all about invading Taiwan in the near future.
Sharar S.A. You think the generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek would step down peacefully if he had the independent China backing him instead of the real world situation where he only has a U.S. supported Taiwan where the U.S. can cut off that support if they wanted to and was simultaneously threatened by CCP from mainland so they can't afford to lose U.S. support? I don't know. I think the alternate Chiang of mainland China would simply keep his militaristic and fascist ways because the U.S. can't afford to alienate him too much and risking Chiang's China to turn towards Soviet in this alternate universe. At the end of the day, I think we would simply have a "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristic" instead of "Communism with Chinese Characteristic."
Thank you for this objective and informative video. The Chinese people--no matter which creed they followed--suffered greatly in the wars with the Japanese and the wars amongst ourselves. At least everyone can appreciate the relative peace we enjoy today.
Japanese Army: We should take out China! Japanese Navy: We should take Indonesia, and other Resource rich areas! Japanese Government: BOTH YOU STOP FIGHTING! *Meanwhile in China* Chinese Governments: EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!
President Eisenhower: so we attack the Chinese government and take Japan as prisoners *meanwhile in china* Chinese government: NO NO NO DONT, DO IT USA: *kills the government* Canada: *helps the USA by going to japan*
Thank you for making more people to know what happened to China during WW2. There are some stories untold and several details not so correct, but overall so well done.
@@VoidSpace9 can’t because the us navy in between the straits it’s better to just keep the status quo and have good relations with the mainland like how the kmt party wants but the dpp is cringe and doesn’t want that
Can you PLEASE do a video about the Spanish Civil War, it's historical significance is very belittled. I'd love to know more about it, and I love the way you teach and illustrate.
The USSR still provided aid through volunteer brigades such as the Soviet Volunteer Group of the Soviet Air Force (1937-1940). So technically, the bit at 1:05 is a bit inaccurate as the Kuomintang accepted Soviet aid due to the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact on April 21st, 1937.
Aryan Saxena yeah I can see that by the amount of casualty that cost them but still there are also a lot of manpower left after the war. Also the Japanese surrendered army must have left a huge amount of weapon behind for the Kuomintang to take them for their own use.
Arif Aiman the communists were better organised and motivated. Also the KMT was not really popular with the people communists had more support from them and they didn't mass defect like soldiers from the KMT did
after Jiang retreat to taiwan, he said the reason for defeat was caused by the corruption in his party but there was definitely multiple factors contribute to the lose such as the society structure (vast number of poor people)during that period of time in China and the motivation of the people in two different armies etc.
the Red Army didn't really fight a lot during WW2 also they spend more time doing Opium's sell and buying equipment to the USSR. After the war, the Americans didn't supported a lot Tchang and ... Well you know the end
+ Alex Quirel, there actually quite a lot miss history after Japan surrendered from communist China side such as how the first major battle between Jiang and Mao start at north east of China and how did communist move those much troops to north east of China without getting spotted?
Aaron Lin Most are propaganda by the communists showing that they did all the work and doing some unrealistic bullshit such as throwing a grenade into the air and blowing up a plane with it.
Do the Swiss Army during World War II. EDIT: Yes, I am aware that the Swiss were neutral, I am just requesting this as this channel does a lot of research and covers a lot of detail in short videos.
nikola zivkovic the swiss were neutral, it true. However every adult in Switzerland has to serve in the army and after that, the go to reserves and bring their firearms home, so if the country gets attacked around all of the men between 18 and 45 years can be called to fight.
Uniforms of Chinese troops during WW2 looked surprisingly similar to German uniforms since Germany supplied their gears and also provided them training. It's ironic to know that the ones supplying them later became allies of the enemies they were fighting.
The cartoon is incorrect. In the begining, the Chinese Communist army actually came out of KMT party, so they both dress the same, even the Communist still uses KMT's national emblem. So the cartoon with the Communist army wearing red emblem on their hats and red collar insignia is incorrect. When the red army later had their own uniform, they did put a red star on every soldier's hat and red collar insignia.
Shame there was no mention of the dadao squads. Chinese soldiers and militia going into close quarters battle armed with Chinese sabers, trained by martial artists, got to the point where the Japanese feared meeting a dadao squad in battle.
Another thing that's incorrect is that when Communist army being absorbed into The KMT army, they once again dressed exacly the same, and they wear the same KMT emblem on their hats through out the war against Japanese. The Communist army only started removing the KMT emblem after they failed the peace talk with the KMT government. However, in many of the Chinese Communist movies, they purposely changed the history by showing the Communist army never wearing the KMT emblem.
A good informative short history of Chinese messy army period of early 20th century. You guys did alot of fair research unlike other "historians" who just look briefly on footnotes and call it Chinese army history.
Definitely would love to see a WW2 game involving China. Playing as either the KMT or Mao's Red Army would be an interesting touch and add a front peoppe never see, as it's severely overlooked.
This video represents a very common misunderstanding of the Second Sino-Japanese war, and everybody worldwide somehow believes in this myth, The KMT were NOT as unwilling and incompetent as it is told to be, And in fact it was the CPC that were backstabbing and evading combat all along. The KMT was unorganized and indeed corrupt, and had multiple issues over control of the armies with disagreeing warlords, but they were the ones who did a vast majority of the fighting in war, and each Chinese victory and military strength that allowed it to last 8 years against a more modernized and organized army was made possible by the speechless contributions of the KMT. They actually became skilled in combat of years of experience. The CPC 's contribution to war is heavily exaggerated. Mao Zedong himself was focused on expanding communist influence upon China more than combat. He secretly made anti-agression agreements with Japan, promised he will cease all guerilla attacks on Japanese railways. He was guarenteed on being spared from upcoming Japanese attacks in return. One time he criticized his general Peng Du Huai for striking a major offensive on the Japanese, and demanded not to repeat such actions without question , stating that the armed forces he had accumilated could have been used against the KMT, but he instead used them in a more 'trivial' matter.
Ridiculous anti communist propaganda and historical revisionism. Mao never made deals with Japanese against KMT, and if he did it would have been to double cross the Japanese. Mao did make deals for ceasefire with KMT so they could focus on the Japanese invasion, that is fact rather than your historical revisionism. Mao and CCP played it smart with guerrilla warfare and asymmetric warfare, basically writing the modern day "art of war" for revolutionary war.
Im not necessarily saying that the Chinese won the war for the allies. all i'm saying is that it's a lesser talked about part of ww2 and it's cool for simple history to talk about it! But in reality, their main contribution was their fighting of the Japanese. They fought back for so long. And just imagine what would have happened if all those soldiers were freed from fighting in China. They would have had much more power at their disposal and could have invaded Australia! Even if that failed, all those men could have seriously bogged down the Americans in their island hopping campaign.
Fun thing to know: After conquering Manchuria and setting up the Manchu Japanese puppet state the 4 year old emperor(which by the time of ww2 was a grown up person) was put in charge of it
The fact that China has seen sooooo much civil war throughout its existence as a country and has not collapsed into the pages of history is astounding.
This is so true, even more precise than history textbooks in Taiwan to which Kuomingtan fled due to the defeat. Our history books deliberately ignore that the initial funding of Kuomingtan was literally from Soviet and tried to misled students into believing that Kuomingtan overthrew Qing dynasty, but in fact it was overthrown by Yuanshi Kai, founder of ROC(many Taiwanese would argue it’s Kuomingtan but no). Good to know you simple history has done an amazing job on presenting the truth.
@@trollkenobi6727 yeah, Yuan shikai was the head of the Qing military and negotiated with Sun Yat-sen and the revolutionaries for the position as the president of a newly established Chinese republic. Not long after, he declared himself the emperor of China, and the Republic of China collapsed into another warlord era, and Sun Yat-sen established the Nationalist party (Kuomintang) in Shanghai to re-unify China, but died before he could do so and leadership passed onto Chiang Kaishek.
the Nationalist did most of the fighting and took more loses then the commies during WW2, and yet not only the Chinese Communists say they did all the fighting, but they r taking almost full credit for the defeat of Japan when in truth the United States defeated the Japanese Empire, not the PLA
GodofGames2468 Agreed, while nationalist were defending in the front, Canadians soldiers fighting in the streets of Hong Kong. The communist were saving their strength, receiving aid from Soviet Union. United States and Great Britain did apt fighting in the Philippines region, and the Pacific war, US took heavy losses in those battles.
GodofGames2468 Battle Of Hong Kong , 1941. Since Hong Kong was British territories it was defended by commonwealth (mostly Canadians) soldiers, many of them lost their lives trying to protect the city that is not theirs. Hate to see how communist party today trying to make it looks like the red army fought for us.
GodofGames2468 I would say the same thing for France and America.France was the first to surrender and USA only entered because they just left Pearl Harbour with no defenses
Yizheng Ji Gu France was not the first one to surrender, Poland is, following with Belgium, you have to give it to France that they were actually fighting Germany on land, with inferior equipments and without environmental advantages like Soviet Union did. They lost the war because they were not prepared for mobile warfare, but trench warfare, they did not expect Germany to go around the Rhine. Even after the surrender French resistance assisted the allied invasion on 1944 greatly in delaying German reinforcements. United States, as you said they left their harbour with no defences is because they were NOT IN WAR when the Japanese attacked, nor did they expected a war with Japan while they are busy helping Britain. And to note the day Japan attacked pearl harbour most of the military personnel were on holiday, that’s why many weren’t in battle stations to defend against enemy aircrafts, and to note that United States although did not do most of the fighting (Soviet Union did) they are crucial in winning the war. They were the only nation with no factory in danger, they shipped munitions and food all across the world, to Britain, to Soviet Union and even China, Soviet Union got many of their munitions and weapons off from United States supplies, without United States supplies Soviet Union could have lost at the battle of Moscow. When the soviets marched towards Berlin, Hitler and his high rank officers planned to relocate German high command to the west as far as France. But it was the allies that broke that idea, if weren’t for the allies landing on the Normandy beaches the war would have continued on and many more would have died.
Conversely, if CCP arrives in Taiwan, then there will be no CCP. It seems that your democracy is very cruel to polities that are different from yours, such as Germany and the United States.
Nice intro, note that there are other two main reason of why the red army defeat KMT 1. The PLA had a superior spy network than the KMT. Due to more politically motivated support inside the republic government, while KMT has very limited means to gain Intel about the red army. 2. Highly developed Manchuria(by Japanese) was occupied by the soviet union and they give it directly to the PLA, since than, the PLA kept receiving used Japanese and Russian weapon for the civil war. There are actually more, but in a nut shell, lets say the word "disorganize" is just an understatement of the republic army.
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The Chinese Communists hardly fought the Japanese at all during WWII. They only fought the Japanese forces in very few instances to expand their own territory. They even helped the Japanese to gather intel about Chiang/KMT forces to call truce between them because ultimately Mao's enemy was Chiang, not the Japanese. The Communists was nearly wiped out by the KMT until the Xi'an Incident which forced the KMT to draw truce between the two Chinese forces. The 8-year war against the Japanese damaged the KMT forces but helped the Communists rebuild their strength. Mao even once said that he was thankful of the Japanese for invading China, otherwise he would've never succeeded against Chiang and ruled Mainland China.
The forgotten front of WW2. It would've been so cool to see a video game have the Chinese armies. My grandfather was a child during the Japanese invasion of China and his family went into hiding. So seeing my ethnicity in a video game would be so cool.
2:34 when the narrator was discussing about Chinese forced conscription, I immediately think about my grand uncle. He was conscripted into the army at that time through kidnapping, according to my grandmother. Unfortunately, he never made it home and to this day, we still don't know where his remains are.
When I wrote a paper on the Second Sino-Japanese War or Pacific War, Chiang Kai-shek was given 97% of US aid and all he did was hoard it to prepare himself for the continuation of the Chinese Civil War. The Chinese Red Army earned less than 3% of US Aid in military goods and were far more successful than the KMT in guerrilla warfare tactics and this led to gaining significant popularity among the peasant population, that is why when the Chinese Civil War began, though out-gunned, with the support of the peasants, the Chinese Red Army were able to garner a swift victory in China.
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Simple History factions the Musketeers or the Swiss guard please.
Especially the Last Stand of 1527
Simple History thanks so much for these vids! I have learned a lot about history from this channel: keep it up
Simple History thank you for doing this video, I been waiting for this video ever since I subscribed
pls do philippine army 2nd world war
The Chinese suffered the 2nd highest total casualties next to the Soviet Union. Not many know this. The video seemed to provide a conservative number for military casualties, but keep in mind many millions of civillians who died due to military causes are likely to be forgotten.
They lost 3rd Germany lost more
Dylan Laugharne China is the Second,you can google it
meanwhile the americans have only 416,800 military casualties, but the media puts so much attention on them
Hitchhike the World Because the U.S. played a pivotal role in defeating Germany in Western Europe. But yes, Chinese involvement in WW2 is probably not even known to a lot of Americans.
i believe it has more to do with politics, regarding media attention
Can you imagine Chinese people only armed with a broadsword doing a deep-night attack against well-equipped Japanese army?
Yes, that's the real event.
and yes, my great grandfather died that way
Could you provide a link please?
@@Preussensprinz Wikipedia?
@@maxwellli7057 the movie "800 Heroes", 1977 Taiwanese film, is about the Battle of Shanghai, and the Defense of the Sihang Warehouse towards the British convention when a battalion from the 88th Division was arrested by the British Army and seized. There used to be an English version of the movie, but I couldn't find it anymore... ruclips.net/video/oPcuE-47irA/видео.html
There are a lot of army groups in China. The Northern Sichuan army, province part of China, one of the poorest part of China; one battalion, only had enough grenades to support 1-4 American or German soldiers. So, the Sichuan army, fought by the hand with broadswords, spears and long bows. The Central Army group took part in major battles, like Shanghai, a bit of Nanking, Wuhan, and etc. While army groups like, the communist new fourth army, 8th route army, or Nationalist northern Sichuan army, fought in small guerilla battles in villages, and mountains, and not really in the major international cities.
So? , my country only fighted with sharpened bamboos and some taken guns , btw im from Indonesia.
Intel: The light blue uniforms of the Chinese Armies are for winter and the khaki / Yellow uniforms are for summer. There was no real standardization and weapons were a mixture of several types.
Notice how Taiwan's flag is the same as the KMT? In 1949 What remained of the Nationalists fled to Taiwan establishing a new capital.
Simple History Nice video as always man
Simple History are you going to make more video on ww2 and factions
Simple History This was uploaded 10 minutes before my world history class. Perfect timing!
Make about the expeditionary forces of Brazil on WW2
Simple History do a croatian army video
My grandpa fought the Japanese invaders. He was only 16 at the time and was badly injured nearly a year later. He fought on after recovery, but a long, scary scar was left on his chin.
Ik it's been 3 years but I would like to say that I respect your father 👍 I'm sure it's never late to respect heroes
@@whatifgodisjustlegs3344 Appreciated!It’s great too see those who sacrificed the most still remain in people’s hearts.
@@whatifgodisjustlegs3344 *Grandfather
You despicable practitioners paired up, our former China caused a huge mining industry. Please apologize to Japan, as well as Unit 731 and the Nanjing Massacre😡😡😡😡
sorry， I misspoke😢😢😢
This was very intresting indeed. Keep up the good work!
@Hans get ze Maschinengewehr 08 Yes, especially when that RUclipsr replies back XD
starwarsstudio100 hey why havnt u posted yet, I used to watch ur vids when I was little all the time
Imagine replying back to me
@@starwarsstudio100 oh hey
Hi bro keep up the gud work
Fun fact:
大刀 (literally, "Big Blade") was a melee weapon used by the chinese unified forces during the sino - Japanese war.
大砍刀, big chopping blade
@Zhou Zay Not Chinese food, but long nife
I'm learning it now! Fun fact: it's heavily influenced by japanese swordsmanship and was developed to counter Japanese bayonettes in french warfare
@@randomdds nah, it just because they liteally had no industry for rifle... just using train track steel and reforge into heavy machete
大刀准备！冲啊！
China actually had three army
1. Nationalist Chinese army.
2. Chinese red army.
3. Chinese collaborationist army.
1. 国名党 (nationalist army)
2. 共产党 (communist party)
3. 伪军/黄皮狗 (were seen as traitors that supported and collaborated with Japanese forces)
and don't forget about the rebels
@@NiniLumine 国民党啦
and the collaborationist army was led by former second man in KMT, and they use roughly the same outfits and marks.
远征军 国军 共军
the chinese effort in WW2 has always been left out by the international community, they deserve more
Superpower Dragon Because they were too busy fighting with each other rather than providing resistance against the Axis powers.
Sharar S.A. What you said is not true. In fact it was quite the other way around. The allied force namely US And UK often don't care about China and the fact that it needs to fight Japanese in their territories while demanding Chinese force to respond to US/UK's need.
Also if China didn't do enough to fight the Japanese, US can forget about the kia they got in their battles, because the Japanese can easily used forces in China to to reinforce those in the pacific. So it is exactly because China held its ground and hold the Japanese down. So quit yapping about China not doing enough, it because western historian just don't care about the history in this part of the world.
S S A Chinese is fighting communism and Japan .We didn’t fight each other .Communists are Russian.
That’s because Japan created anime, not china.
Hugo Gong
Communists WANTED the united front. Chiang’s generals literally had to force him at gunpoint to sign a truce. Nationalists are traitors to the chinese people, Chiang would have gladly handed China to Japan if it meant he could stay in power.
The Chinese Civil war started in 1927 and didn't end until 1949. Hot damn that's 22 years of war. Just imagine if the American civil lasted that long there would be nobody left!
Marty Moose It starts at 1912，1927 is the year KMT starts war vs red amy. before that is warlord period. basicly from 1840 to 1950 just 100 years wars. after that, you have great leap forward, culture revolution under Mao until 1976. well, talking about suffering....
@@fuqiancui5046 It started since 1895 when the Tongmenghui began trying to wrest power from the Qing. 1894 if you include the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War
Sounds like the Middle East everyday.
The civil war was actually not all 22 years. It was two parts. 27-37 and paused until 45 due to the full scale japanese invasions. Resumed shortly after their surrender until 49 when the communists emerged victorious. If you are wanting to look deeper into the second part of the civil war, the decisive battles were the 3 great campaigns. The Pingjing, liaoshen, and Huaihai.
Actually the civil war is still going on like the Korean Peninsula
My great grandfather was a general who served the KMT. I hate when people just leave out the war efforts of China in WWII, especially because they suffered so many casualties (civilian and soldier) thank you Simple History for making this video.
My grandfathers as a army officer in the proc
same my grandparents were high ranking officials in the KMT and had to flee to Taiwan in order to escape the Communists. Despite the clear resentment of the Communist party, my grandpa still hates the Japanese more. He even scolded me about how much anime I watch.
@@asiankid7334 That’s really unfortunate. Japanese atrocities can be unforgettable. My grandpa and great aunt (Korean) had Japanese names, and I’ve been told they hated those names.
@@asiankid7334 thank god yall fled to taiwan
My great grandfather was in a local militia either communist or kmt
China was seriously screwed at that time.
Indeed. But later on Japan Knew that they've been biting more than they could chew.
They still are now
And now look, China is a powerhouse not far behind America militarily and economically.
Bullet-Tooth Tony militarily in terms of numbers and gear, yes, in terms of experience and skill, absolutely no, American and Russian soldiers would massacre the PLA in open and even assymetric warfare.
betarage still are
China fought the Japanese for eight years (1937-1945). With almost zero support from the Western nations. As a result, they had the second highest number of fatalities. With 14 million people dying over the war, and China losing most of its hard earned modernisation.
Yup they've been a punching bag for years. But if warn't for their resistance and being persevere against the well trained and well equipped Japanese, more than millions would be added to the Japanese cause (Which is Japan's plans for world domination. China's Man Power). And U.S. would've been push back easily by the Imperialists.
Glory belongs to the Kuomintang
Glory belongs to Chinese, not Taiwanese.
jaiqi Taiwan is Chinese
艹尼玛 Kuomintang is a political party while you should’ve said Glory to the Chinese people.
Never thought I'd see a Stahlhelm and an M1 used in the same army.
China during the interwar period and world war 2 was very interesting. The KMT, CPC, and Warlords relied on foreign weapons and equipment to modernize the military. As you may know, the Czech ZB vz 26 was a very popular LMG in China during the war.
because they use liteally everything= = u could even see someone with Type 38 with the user wearing Brodie helmet
And Mosin Nagant
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1:54 you should put Chiang on the right side and Mao on the left side :p
Gordon Wong why?
Oh wow that’s a nice catch actually
@@MOVEDCHANNEL69420 Political spectrum
Dictators
That is mao when he was younger
China is actually one of my favorite nations to play in Hoi4 so I've made sure to find out everything I can about them in WW2.
same because they start off so weak but with the potential of becoming the strongest.
If ROC won, so much in Asia would be different.
Jason Denton if roc won, the korean war would end in capitalist favor. Roc would be a huge ally for usa in asia
Jason Denton Maybe the whole no North Korea And I don't think there would be a push for aggressive land claims since there is no Taiwan to invade. The whole south China sea is all about invading Taiwan in the near future.
Jason Denton China would've likely turned into a democracy due to pressure from western allies like the US, and North Korea wouldn't exist.
Andrew Song
China should have kept its monarchy
The historical importance of China's 5000 year old imperial history is immense.
Sharar S.A. You think the generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek would step down peacefully if he had the independent China backing him instead of the real world situation where he only has a U.S. supported Taiwan where the U.S. can cut off that support if they wanted to and was simultaneously threatened by CCP from mainland so they can't afford to lose U.S. support? I don't know. I think the alternate Chiang of mainland China would simply keep his militaristic and fascist ways because the U.S. can't afford to alienate him too much and risking Chiang's China to turn towards Soviet in this alternate universe. At the end of the day, I think we would simply have a "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristic" instead of "Communism with Chinese Characteristic."
Thank you for this objective and informative video. The Chinese people--no matter which creed they followed--suffered greatly in the wars with the Japanese and the wars amongst ourselves. At least everyone can appreciate the relative peace we enjoy today.
Japanese Army: We should take out China!
Japanese Navy: We should take Indonesia, and other Resource rich areas!
Japanese Government: BOTH YOU STOP FIGHTING!
*Meanwhile in China*
Chinese Governments: EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!
China: dead bodies everywere
Japanese Military: Look at China! *It's raping time*
American Air Force: lets bomb Japan
*meanwhile in Japan*
Japanese army: AHHHHHHH *Tokyo gets bombed*
President Eisenhower: so we attack the Chinese government and take Japan as prisoners
*meanwhile in china*
Chinese government: NO NO NO DONT,
DO IT
USA: *kills the government*
Canada: *helps the USA by going to japan*
@@jeremyasher297 *I'm sorry sir, but I think you have mistaken Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Tokyo*
If simple history was in our school many would love history as I do.
Ahh and the waking tiger will be soon released
NoodleSausage . Hoi4
Took them long enough... ffs pdx
ErnieT and it costs 20 bucks
Honestly I'd just stick to road to 56 fellas
The red dragon not the tiger.
India is the tiger.
Do the Spanish Civil War
Cochiloco yah please do this
No Pasaran!
Yes! American fight on losing side = jewish/commie.
@@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG what
@@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG huh
List of Tanks:
Tankketes:
- Carden Loyd Mk VI Tankkete 🇬🇧🇹🇼
- CV-33 🇮🇹🇹🇼
- CV-35 🇮🇹🇹🇼
- Renault UE Chenillette 🇫🇷🇹🇼
- Universal Carrier 🇬🇧🇹🇼
- CTMS T-16 🇺🇲🇹🇼
Amphibian Tanks:
- Vickers Carden Loyd A4E12 🇬🇧🇹🇼
Light Tanks:
- Renault FT-17 🇫🇷🇹🇼
- Vickers Mark E Type B 🇬🇧🇹🇼
- Panzer I 🇩🇪🇹🇼
- Fiat 3000 🇮🇹🇹🇼
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- T-26 🇷🇺🇹🇼
- Renault ZB 🇫🇷🇹🇼
- M3A3 Stuart 🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳
Cruise Tanks:
- BT-5 🇷🇺🇹🇼
Medium Tanks:
- Type 97 Chi-Ha 🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳
- M4 Sherman 🇺🇲🇹🇼
- T-34 🇷🇺🇨🇳
Thank you for making more people to know what happened to China during WW2. There are some stories untold and several details not so correct, but overall so well done.
Ww2 the Greek Army
Panos noba he already did that just type ww2 Greek army and you should find it Edit:my mistake it said ww1 not ww2
Nomar Vidales that was ww1
+1
I know it was world war 1 I made a mistake
Nomar Vidales no problem m8
Now that COD WW2 is out, I've been even more interested in WW2 factions, keep up the great videos!
China: We ended the Civil War in January 1949.
Taiwan: Well yes, but actually no.
Let's end it then
they basically won the war the nationalists last stronghold is an island 80 miles away from china
@@treeman12815 called Taiwan. So technically we should finish the war by conquering the island
@@VoidSpace9 can’t because the us navy in between the straits it’s better to just keep the status quo and have good relations with the mainland like how the kmt party wants but the dpp is cringe and doesn’t want that
Can you PLEASE do a video about the Spanish Civil War, it's historical significance is very belittled. I'd love to know more about it, and I love the way you teach and illustrate.
The USSR still provided aid through volunteer brigades such as the Soviet Volunteer Group of the Soviet Air Force (1937-1940). So technically, the bit at 1:05 is a bit inaccurate as the Kuomintang accepted Soviet aid due to the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact on April 21st, 1937.
Your vids are amazing I managed to pass my ww2 exam last week and my revision tool was this... amazing... keep up the great work and animations :)
Jack Smith congratulations!!
Glory to heroes of KMT and CCP, ZhongGuo never forgets you!!
The CCP did nothing but sit in the mountains the whole war, the Nationalists were the only ones doing anything.
@@lauritorni4879 the CCP did conduct offensive too but limited offensive all they do is preserve their strength
@@lauritorni4879 你不懂中国的历史，当时中国共产党的军队全部加入了国民党编制。
Someone that respects both KMT and CCP...
RESPECT
@@lauritorni4879 seethe
I never ever knew this, never taught in schools. Amazed yet again, you guys are great.
When you dont have history class in school yet:
*A'ight, time to watch Simple History.*
Don’t worry when you get in like in 6 grade you start learning more and more about history and multiple classes
Glad you guys shed light on the truth rather than follow propaganda or alter the stories so as not to trigger or anger people.
I have a question. How does the Kuomintang lose to the Communist China? The Kuomintang have more fire power and manpower but still lose.
Aryan Saxena yeah I can see that by the amount of casualty that cost them but still there are also a lot of manpower left after the war. Also the Japanese surrendered army must have left a huge amount of weapon behind for the Kuomintang to take them for their own use.
Arif Aiman the communists were better organised and motivated. Also the KMT was not really popular with the people communists had more support from them and they didn't mass defect like soldiers from the KMT did
after Jiang retreat to taiwan, he said the reason for defeat was caused by the corruption in his party but there was definitely multiple factors contribute to the lose such as the society structure (vast number of poor people)during that period of time in China and the motivation of the people in two different armies etc.
the Red Army didn't really fight a lot during WW2 also they spend more time doing Opium's sell and buying equipment to the USSR. After the war, the Americans didn't supported a lot Tchang and ... Well you know the end
+ Alex Quirel, there actually quite a lot miss history after Japan surrendered from communist China side such as how the first major battle between Jiang and Mao start at north east of China and how did communist move those much troops to north east of China without getting spotted?
can you do vids on he korean war?
Jonathan Weiß uh hey
filipino army in korean war
I'd like this, it is especially relevant in today's international climate!
Jonathan Weiß i can tell
No he can't lol, cause we been asking but nothing 🤷🏻♂️
Not many people remember this faction, a shame too since my grandfather survived the invasion of China.
There's so many of these WW2 Chinese war movies out there
Aaron Lin Most are propaganda by the communists showing that they did all the work and doing some unrealistic bullshit such as throwing a grenade into the air and blowing up a plane with it.
Obersturm, u got that from china uncensored. Unsurprisingly he doesn't talk about the newer ones that focus more on the nationalists
No they are shot by Hong Kong directors and these directors just want to shoot kungfu series in the WW2 background.
@@haiyangao9159 Like Flowers of War. But most of the nationalist ones were a bit older like the Battle of Taierzhuang or 800 Heroes
《紫日》Purple sun is my favourite, but it's main content is not abour warfare though.
You guys can really pump these out great job!
0:48 fun fact, the allies called this guy Cash my check, because of his corruption.
Do the Swiss Army during World War II.
EDIT: Yes, I am aware that the Swiss were neutral, I am just requesting this as this channel does a lot of research and covers a lot of detail in short videos.
Dunno What To Put Here tf swiss is neutral ther eis no war in swiss
nikola zivkovic He said during
The General was Henry Guisan, right?
Mingkun Ng oooo 😥 anyway it never been attacked and he have video on youtube alredy why and what swiss was doing in ww2
nikola zivkovic the swiss were neutral, it true. However every adult in Switzerland has to serve in the army and after that, the go to reserves and bring their firearms home, so if the country gets attacked around all of the men between 18 and 45 years can be called to fight.
This is the best episode in Simple History.
Uniforms of Chinese troops during WW2 looked surprisingly similar to German uniforms since Germany supplied their gears and also provided them training. It's ironic to know that the ones supplying them later became allies of the enemies they were fighting.
The way this guy draws these armymen makes them look so cool
I absolutely love this guy's videos. Always a thumbs up👍
The cartoon is incorrect. In the begining, the Chinese Communist army actually came out of KMT party, so they both dress the same, even the Communist still uses KMT's national emblem. So the cartoon with the Communist army wearing red emblem on their hats and red collar insignia is incorrect. When the red army later had their own uniform, they did put a red star on every soldier's hat and red collar insignia.
This was a very informative video, thank you!
Good stuff lads, I was waiting for this one.
Relly cool animations.
I love history and that is why I subscribed to you.
Shame there was no mention of the dadao squads. Chinese soldiers and militia going into close quarters battle armed with Chinese sabers, trained by martial artists, got to the point where the Japanese feared meeting a dadao squad in battle.
Heya, would love to see more faction videos like the Hungarian army in ww2 or the Portuguese army in ww1, keep up the great work! :)
Do something about the South African Boere.
(Please and thank you)
Another thing that's incorrect is that when Communist army being absorbed into The KMT army, they once again dressed exacly the same, and they wear the same KMT emblem on their hats through out the war against Japanese. The Communist army only started removing the KMT emblem after they failed the peace talk with the KMT government. However, in many of the Chinese Communist movies, they purposely changed the history by showing the Communist army never wearing the KMT emblem.
if you had uploaded this yesterday, would have helped with my essay XD took me 7 hours to write about the civil war
Will you please do factions finland in ww2
Coop Dawg yeah
They propably wont do it because they already made a video about winter war
Coop Dawg Suomi prkele
Artturi Rouhe yeah bout what about 1941 jatko sota
NoodleSausage okay they will propably do video about finnish faction in ww2 but not in a while
A good informative short history of Chinese messy army period of early 20th century. You guys did alot of fair research unlike other "historians" who just look briefly on footnotes and call it Chinese army history.
Definitely would love to see a WW2 game involving China. Playing as either the KMT or Mao's Red Army would be an interesting touch and add a front peoppe never see, as it's severely overlooked.
Make it a sequel to WAW and throw Roebuck in there as an American ally.
Heart of Iron 4
This video represents a very common misunderstanding of the Second Sino-Japanese war, and everybody worldwide somehow believes in this myth,
The KMT were NOT as unwilling and incompetent as it is told to be,
And in fact it was the CPC that were backstabbing and evading combat all along.
The KMT was unorganized and indeed corrupt, and had multiple issues over control of the armies with disagreeing warlords, but they were the ones who did a vast majority of the fighting in war, and each Chinese victory and military strength that allowed it to last 8 years against a more modernized and organized army was made possible by the speechless contributions of the KMT. They actually became skilled in combat of years of experience.
The CPC 's contribution to war is heavily exaggerated. Mao Zedong himself was focused on expanding communist influence upon China more than combat. He secretly made anti-agression agreements with Japan, promised he will cease all guerilla attacks on Japanese railways. He was guarenteed on being spared from upcoming Japanese attacks in return.
One time he criticized his general Peng Du Huai for striking a major offensive on the Japanese, and demanded not to repeat such actions without question , stating that the armed forces he had accumilated could have been used against the KMT, but he instead used them in a more 'trivial' matter.
Ridiculous anti communist propaganda and historical revisionism. Mao never made deals with Japanese against KMT, and if he did it would have been to double cross the Japanese. Mao did make deals for ceasefire with KMT so they could focus on the Japanese invasion, that is fact rather than your historical revisionism. Mao and CCP played it smart with guerrilla warfare and asymmetric warfare, basically writing the modern day "art of war" for revolutionary war.
@@ex0duzz indeed you are correct
You are a master at fabricating history
Please do Philippine-American War
Thank you for this video on a lesser known part of ww2!
Could you do a faction video over the Belgian army in ww1?
Festivo Gaming can I hear about their contributions? I'm really interested
Im not necessarily saying that the Chinese won the war for the allies. all i'm saying is that it's a lesser talked about part of ww2 and it's cool for simple history to talk about it!
But in reality, their main contribution was their fighting of the Japanese. They fought back for so long. And just imagine what would have happened if all those soldiers were freed from fighting in China. They would have had much more power at their disposal and could have invaded Australia! Even if that failed, all those men could have seriously bogged down the Americans in their island hopping campaign.
Fun thing to know: After conquering Manchuria and setting up the Manchu Japanese puppet state the 4 year old emperor(which by the time of ww2 was a grown up person) was put in charge of it
The fact that China has seen sooooo much civil war throughout its existence as a country and has not collapsed into the pages of history is astounding.
the term of "china" is means a civilization rather a nation state
I've been waiting for this for a long time.... Thanks
This is so true, even more precise than history textbooks in Taiwan to which Kuomingtan fled due to the defeat. Our history books deliberately ignore that the initial funding of Kuomingtan was literally from Soviet and tried to misled students into believing that Kuomingtan overthrew Qing dynasty, but in fact it was overthrown by Yuanshi Kai, founder of ROC(many Taiwanese would argue it’s Kuomingtan but no). Good to know you simple history has done an amazing job on presenting the truth.
其实袁世凯是摘了大桃子，真正的反清主力确实是南方的革命党人，尤其是孙中山先生呕心沥血的意志与行动……袁世凯能成为总统。就因为他掌握了北洋军……总之，把权力妥协给北洋那帮人。不得不说是革命的重大损失
Actually, Yuan Shikai in his short tenure tried to recreate the Empire
@@trollkenobi6727 yeah, Yuan shikai was the head of the Qing military and negotiated with Sun Yat-sen and the revolutionaries for the position as the president of a newly established Chinese republic. Not long after, he declared himself the emperor of China, and the Republic of China collapsed into another warlord era, and Sun Yat-sen established the Nationalist party (Kuomintang) in Shanghai to re-unify China, but died before he could do so and leadership passed onto Chiang Kaishek.
the Nationalist did most of the fighting and took more loses then the commies during WW2, and yet not only the Chinese Communists say they did all the fighting, but they r taking almost full credit for the defeat of Japan when in truth the United States defeated the Japanese Empire, not the PLA
GodofGames2468 Agreed, while nationalist were defending in the front, Canadians soldiers fighting in the streets of Hong Kong.
The communist were saving their strength, receiving aid from Soviet Union.
United States and Great Britain did apt fighting in the Philippines region, and the Pacific war, US took heavy losses in those battles.
Canadians??
GodofGames2468 Battle Of Hong Kong , 1941. Since Hong Kong was British territories it was defended by commonwealth (mostly Canadians) soldiers, many of them lost their lives trying to protect the city that is not theirs.
Hate to see how communist party today trying to make it looks like the red army fought for us.
GodofGames2468 I would say the same thing for France and America.France was the first to surrender and USA only entered because they just left Pearl Harbour with no defenses
Yizheng Ji Gu France was not the first one to surrender, Poland is, following with Belgium, you have to give it to France that they were actually fighting Germany on land, with inferior equipments and without environmental advantages like Soviet Union did. They lost the war because they were not prepared for mobile warfare, but trench warfare, they did not expect Germany to go around the Rhine. Even after the surrender French resistance assisted the allied invasion on 1944 greatly in delaying German reinforcements.
United States, as you said they left their harbour with no defences is because they were NOT IN WAR when the Japanese attacked, nor did they expected a war with Japan while they are busy helping Britain. And to note the day Japan attacked pearl harbour most of the military personnel were on holiday, that’s why many weren’t in battle stations to defend against enemy aircrafts, and to note that United States although did not do most of the fighting (Soviet Union did) they are crucial in winning the war. They were the only nation with no factory in danger, they shipped munitions and food all across the world, to Britain, to Soviet Union and even China, Soviet Union got many of their munitions and weapons off from United States supplies, without United States supplies Soviet Union could have lost at the battle of Moscow.
When the soviets marched towards Berlin, Hitler and his high rank officers planned to relocate German high command to the west as far as France. But it was the allies that broke that idea, if weren’t for the allies landing on the Normandy beaches the war would have continued on and many more would have died.
I wish my teacher teached me this.
4:06 no mention of Mao sending a letter to Japanese emperor , and thanking him for weakening the Chinese army for the reds
Smart guy
Glad you changed the outro voice over. Great video!
Forget Call of Duty: WW2, this video is a real deal.
Can you make the finnish army ww2
Good call
I swear they made a video about the soviet invasion of Finland and it discussed about the army and so
Rafe Rafe That was just The winter war, Not the Faction of Finnish Army.
Rafe Rafe Finland fought three wars in WW2, they have only covered the Winter War. So there is potential for two more or even just a faction video.
Love to China’s people and what they did to fight the Japanese empire in ww2 from Canada 🇨🇦
Let’s hope it never happens again, so much blood shed for nothing in my eyes.
Hey simple history you should do a video on the continuation war as a follow up to the winter war video
My phone: *made in china*
My phones battery: *1%*
This video: *about china*
Also my phone: *Well stay a little longer.*
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Fun fact: the rest of the Chinese army fled to Taiwan, and up to this day they have a democracy on the island!
Conversely, if CCP arrives in Taiwan, then there will be no CCP. It seems that your democracy is very cruel to polities that are different from yours, such as Germany and the United States.
Ww2 Polish army
or how to be unflexible af
YES
wait what polish army lol XD
+falloutMC Hebe The Polish army was bigger than the French so
horses
Please make a video on the Nepalese Army
Darsh D Such a small country, a video would be wasted on it
Drunk Kiddo They have one of the fiercest warriors in the World
+Darsh D The indians in WWII
Darsh D but no big military
Darsh D but all they did was fight a bit and provide manpower in Burma, nothing else.
It's equal to doing a video on Costa Rica.
I thought you never made this, until it was recommended after 2 years
Great video! Keep it up!
Keep up these Factions videos! They're interesting! Also consider doing various wars and conflicts too
Ww2 Australian army
Nicely Done video as always
Btw,
This remind me, Heart of Iron 4 : Waking Up the Tiger
China have Numerical potential to become Powerhouse
The man delivers!
I love your channel! I'm a new subscriber. Keep them coming!
Can you make the story about a chinese general during the second sino-japanese war who got a nickname "Rommel of the east"?
Sun Liren?
@@tokarevw1576 yes
Nice intro, note that there are other two main reason of why the red army defeat KMT
1. The PLA had a superior spy network than the KMT. Due to more politically motivated support inside the republic government, while KMT has very limited means to gain Intel about the red army.
2. Highly developed Manchuria(by Japanese) was occupied by the soviet union and they give it directly to the PLA, since than, the PLA kept receiving used Japanese and Russian weapon for the civil war.
There are actually more, but in a nut shell, lets say the word "disorganize" is just an understatement of the republic army.
Can You Do
The Mexican Revolution
The Costa Rican Civil War
The Chinese Civil War (no this video does not count it is a faction)
The English Civil War
The American Civil War
The War Of 1812
The American Industrial Revolution
The Chinese Axe Gang
The Yakuza
The Stg44
The Lever Action Rifle
Warsaw Uprising WWII
Ghengis Khan
The KKK
The Second Sino Japanese War (still this video doesn't count)
The First Sino Japanese War
The Korean War
The Indian Revolution
The Spanish Civil War
The French Civil War
The Mexican American War
The Spanish American War
The War In The Philippines
The Ice Age
The Crusade Era
The 100 Years War
The French Indian War
And A Video On Napoleon
天皇陛下万歳!
He couldn't do all of it alone.
And Also, What about the T-34?
the legendary Emu war
6000 Emus vs Australians troops.
and Don't forget about the Great War of Surabaya
Why not the First Sino Japanese War.
Thank you so much,this will help me in my exam!
The Chinese Communists hardly fought the Japanese at all during WWII. They only fought the Japanese forces in very few instances to expand their own territory. They even helped the Japanese to gather intel about Chiang/KMT forces to call truce between them because ultimately Mao's enemy was Chiang, not the Japanese. The Communists was nearly wiped out by the KMT until the Xi'an Incident which forced the KMT to draw truce between the two Chinese forces. The 8-year war against the Japanese damaged the KMT forces but helped the Communists rebuild their strength. Mao even once said that he was thankful of the Japanese for invading China, otherwise he would've never succeeded against Chiang and ruled Mainland China.
That warlord’s son really sold
Teacher: "Why are you laughing?"
Me: "No reason"
My brain: Mao the Dong
Mouse the dong
LMAO Zedong
The correct spelling is: Mao Zedong
PLS do a video about the gulf wars!
That would be so cool
Pls.. Do the philippine guerilla from ww2 and Philippine expiditionary force from the korean war, specifically the 10th combat battalion.
The forgotten front of WW2. It would've been so cool to see a video game have the Chinese armies. My grandfather was a child during the Japanese invasion of China and his family went into hiding. So seeing my ethnicity in a video game would be so cool.
Really dumb that we haven't seen any Sino-Japanese war games.
Fun Fact: the last emperor of the Qing dynasty was a kid named pu yi whom I believe was a janitor after he was kicked out by the revolutionaries
Not accurate, he worked in an botanic garden in Beijing after the civil war, and a few years later became a librarian.
WWI: The Belgian Army
WWII: The Greek Army
WWIII: The North Korean Army
1:49 I see only Dot Pixis
0:36 why do they all look the same
Yeah
And Look Same in Austria Hungary Uniform
2:34 when the narrator was discussing about Chinese forced conscription, I immediately think about my grand uncle. He was conscripted into the army at that time through kidnapping, according to my grandmother. Unfortunately, he never made it home and to this day, we still don't know where his remains are.
When I wrote a paper on the Second Sino-Japanese War or Pacific War, Chiang Kai-shek was given 97% of US aid and all he did was hoard it to prepare himself for the continuation of the Chinese Civil War. The Chinese Red Army earned less than 3% of US Aid in military goods and were far more successful than the KMT in guerrilla warfare tactics and this led to gaining significant popularity among the peasant population, that is why when the Chinese Civil War began, though out-gunned, with the support of the peasants, the Chinese Red Army were able to garner a swift victory in China.