1937

July 15

The Chinese Communist Party delivered to the Kuomintang the "Declaration of the CPC Central Committee on Publishing the Cooperation Between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang" and asked the latter to publicize it immediately. On July 23, Chiang Kai-shek gave a talk in which he promised to publish the declaration on cooperation between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang. At the same time, he recognized the Chinese Communist Party and cooperation between the two parties for resisting the Japanese.

July 29

Peiping fell.

July 30

Tianjin fell.

August 13

The Japanese army attacked Shanghai and bombarded the center of the city. The army and the people in Shanghai rose in resistance.

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