Battle of Taiyuan

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battle military campaign

The Battle of Taiyuan was a major early campaign of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, in which Japanese forces captured the strategic city of Taiyuan in Shanxi Province after heavy fighting against Chinese Nationalist and warlord troops.

Aliases (1)

Taiyuan Campaign ×1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	battle → military campaign →
alsoKnownAs	Taiyuan Campaign →
characterizedBy	heavy fighting →
chronologyWithinWar	early campaign of Second Sino-Japanese War →
combatant	Imperial Japanese Army → National Revolutionary Army → Shanxi warlord forces →
conflict	Second Sino-Japanese War →
countryInvolved	Empire of Japan → Republic of China →
endTime	1937 →
followedBy	further Japanese advances in North China →
hasCasualties	Japanese casualties → high Chinese casualties →
hasConsequence	loss of a major industrial city for China → strengthening of Japanese strategic position in North China →
hasEffect	Japanese consolidation of control in Shanxi → weakening of Chinese defensive line in North China →
hasLanguage	Chinese → Japanese →
hasParticipant	Chinese Nationalist government forces → Japanese Kwantung Army elements →
hasResult	Japanese victory →
hasTopic	Chinese resistance to Japanese invasion → warlord-era military forces in China →
historicalPeriod	1930s →
involves	Chinese National Revolutionary Army divisions → Japanese infantry units → air support by Japanese forces → artillery bombardment →
locatedInPresentDay	Taiyuan, Shanxi, China →
location	North China → Shanxi Province → Taiyuan →
militaryTheater	North China theater →
opponent	Chinese Nationalist forces → Chinese warlord troops →
outcome	capture of Taiyuan by Japanese forces →
partOf	Japanese North China campaign → Second Sino-Japanese War →
precededBy	Battle of Pingxingguan →
startTime	1937 →
strategicImportance	control of North China coal resources → control of Shanxi Province →
typeOfConflict	land battle →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Battle of Taiyuan ("Taiyuan Campaign") →	alsoKnownAs
Battle of Beiping–Tianjin →	followedBy