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Japan had already been engaged upon an aggressive war with China for four and a half years when the Pacific War began suddenly in December 1941. Japan, together with Germany and Italy, finally stepped onto the road towards world domination. China’s War of Resistance against Japanese militarism now became part of the worldwide anti-Axis group.
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Tao, W. (1994). The China Theatre and the Pacific War. In: Dockrill, S. (eds) From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23129-4_9
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