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  • Germany
    Feb, 1938
    Adolf Hitler

    The Sino-German alliance

    Germany
    Feb, 1938

    In February 1938, on the advice of his newly appointed foreign minister, the strongly pro-Japanese Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler ended the Sino-German alliance with the Republic of China to instead enter into an alliance with the more modern and powerful Empire of Japan.




  • Girona, Spain
    Wednesday Feb 2, 1938
    Spanish Civil War

    Girona fell

    Girona, Spain
    Wednesday Feb 2, 1938

    Girona fell on 2 February.




  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Feb, 1938
    Winston Churchill

    Matters came to a head

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Feb, 1938

    At first, Churchill welcomed Chamberlain's appointment but, in February 1938, matters came to a head after Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned over Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini, a policy which Chamberlain was extending towards Hitler.




  • Chongqing, China
    Friday Feb 18, 1938
    Second Sino-Japanese War

    Japanese raiders hit Chongqing

    Chongqing, China
    Friday Feb 18, 1938

    With Japanese casualties and costs mounting, the Imperial General Headquarters attempted to break Chinese resistance by ordering the air branches of their navy and army to launch the war's first massive air raids on civilian targets. Japanese raiders hit the Kuomintang's newly established provisional capital of Chongqing and most other major cities in unoccupied China, leaving millions dead, injured, and homeless.




  • Spain
    Sunday Feb 27, 1938
    Spanish Civil War

    United Kingdom and France recognized the Franco regime

    Spain
    Sunday Feb 27, 1938

    On 27 February, the United Kingdom and France recognized the Franco regime.




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