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January
01
The Japanese counter-offensive in Shanxi
On 1 January 1940 the Japanese struck near Changzhi in Shanxi at Chinese corps that had hemmed in garrisons of their 36th Division in the winter offensive.
February
01
Japan’s record military budget
On 1 February 1940 Yonai’s government put a budget of over 10 billion yen, two-thirds military, to the Diet. Next day Takao Saitō asked what the war was for.
March
30
Wang Jingwei’s government in Nanjing
On 30 March 1940 Wang Jingwei set up a collaborationist government in occupied Nanjing. It hailed a “return to the capital” but ruled only where Japan allowed.
May
31
The bombing of Chongqing
From 18 May 1940, in Operation 101, Japanese aircraft bombed Chongqing, China's wartime capital, day after day to break Chiang Kai-shek's will to resist.
June
29
Arita proclaims a new order in East Asia
On 29 June 1940 Foreign Minister Hachirō Arita declared on the radio that East Asia and the South Seas formed one sphere whose stability Japan guaranteed.
July
22
The second Konoe cabinet
On 22 July 1940 Fumimaro Konoe became Prime Minister of Japan again. His cabinet with Matsuoka and Tōjō turned Japan towards Germany and southward expansion.
August
20
The Hundred Regiments Offensive
On 20 August 1940 the communist Eighth Route Army struck Japanese railways, bridges, mines and posts in northern China. Peng Dehuai was in command.
September
22
Japan enters French Indochina
On 22 September 1940 Vichy France agreed to Japanese troops in Tonkin. Hours later the Japanese 5th Division attacked across the border near Lạng Sơn.
27
Key event
The Tripartite Pact
On 27 September 1940 in Berlin, Germany, Italy and Japan concluded a ten-year alliance aimed at the United States. It was meant to deter America from war.