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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Chongqing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The population of the urban area of Chongqing proper was estimated at 3.4 million in 2004, ranking approximately as the 10th largest urban area of China.
		Chongqing was the provisional capital of the government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek during World War II (Second Chinese-Japanese War) and was heavily bombed by the Japanese Air Force.
		Chongqing is a sister city of Seattle, Washington, USA.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Chongqing (1110 words)

	Bombing of Chongqing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bombing of Chongqing (February 18, 1938 - August 23, 1943) was a Japanese terror bombing campaign against the Chinese provisional capital of Chongqing that lasted 5 1/2 years.
		A conservative estimate places the number of bombing runs at more than 5000, with more than 11500 bombs dropped, the majority of which were incendiary bombs.
		These terror bombings were probably aimed at cowing the Chinese government, or as part of the planned Sichuan invasion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombing_of_Chungking_in_World_War_II (265 words)

	Incendiary bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Incendiary bombs are bombs designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using materials such as napalm, thermite, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus.
		Incendiary bombs, also known as fire bombs, were used as an effective bombing weapon in WWII.
		The bombing of Dresden in World War II, and to a lesser degree the 1943 bombing of Hamburg, remains a source of controversy to this day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Incendiary_bomb (258 words)

	Chongqing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Chongqing (重慶/重庆 pinyin: Chóngqìng; Wade-Giles: Ch'ung-ch'ing; Postal System Pinyin: Chungking) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic of China's four municipalities, which have provincial-level status.
		Chongqing was the provisional capital of the government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek during World War II (Second Chinese-Japanese War).
		Located on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, Chongqing is intersected by the Jialing River and the upper reaches of the Yangtze.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ch/chongqing.html (925 words)

	Terror bombing - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Terror bombing is a strategy of deliberately bombing civilian targets and strafing civilians in order to break the morale of the enemy and make the civilian population of the enemy panic.
		The bombing of Guernica was the foremost example, leading to the seminal painting of "Guernica" by the artist Picasso showing all the horror and terror of such attacks.
		The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not conducted to terrorise the civilian Japanese, although this was an inevitable outcome of the use of such a terrible weapon, but to persuade the Japanese government that further resistance was futile.
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	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Chongqing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The municipality of Chongqing has a registered population of 31,442,300 (2005), most of them living outside the urban area of Chongqing proper, over hundreds of square kilometres of farmland.
		The population of the urban area of Chongqing proper was 12.057 million in 2005, ranking it as the 3rd largest city in China in terms of population.
		Chongqing was the provisional capital of the government of Chiang Kai-shek during the Second Chinese-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945 and was heavily bombed by the Japanese Air Force, called "Bombing of Chongqing".
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Chongqing (2070 words)

	Chongqing - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Chongqing (Simplified Chinese: 重庆; Traditional Chinese: 重慶; pinyin: Chóngqìng; Wade-Giles: Ch'ung-ch'ing; Postal System Pinyin: Chungking; literally "Double Celebration") is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic of China's four provincial-level municipalities, and the only one in the less densely populated western half of China.
		Chongqing is said to be the semi-mythical State of Ba (巴國) that began in 11th century BC, when the Ba people began living here until they were destroyed by the State of Qin in 316 BC.
		The municipality was formed to spearhead China's effort to develop its western regions as well as to coordinate the resettlement of refugees from the Three Gorges Dam project.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Chongqing (1189 words)

	More Info - Chongqing wik9.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Chongqing (; Postal System Pinyin : Chungking) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic of China 's four provinces of China -level municipality of China, and the only one in the less densely populated western half of China.
		The population of the urban area of Chongqing proper was 12.057 million in 2005, ranking as the 3th largest city of China in term of population.
		Chongqing was the provisional capital of China of the government of Chiang Kai-shek during the Second Chinese-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945 and was heavily bombed by the Japan ese Air Force, called " Bombing of Chongqing ".
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	Chongqing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		'''Chongqing''' ({{zh-stpw t=重慶 s=重庆 p=Chóngqìng w=Ch'ung-ch'ing}}; Postal System Pinyin: '''Chungking''') is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic of China's four provincial-level municipalities, and the only one in the less densely populated western half of China.
		Chongqing was the provisional capital of the government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek during the Second Chinese-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945 and was heavily bombed by the Japanese Air Force.
		Chongqing is also sister city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Chongqing (1127 words)

	Chongqing - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Chongqing's industries include a large-scale integrated iron and steel complex, oil and copper refineries, motor vehicle and munitions factories, cotton and silk mills, chemical and cement plants, food-processing establishments, machine shops, paper mills, and tanneries.
		Chongqing (Simplified Chinese: 重庆; Traditional Chinese: 重慶; Hanyu Pinyin: Chóngqìng; Wade-Giles: Ch'ung-ch'ing; Postal System Pinyin: Chungking) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic of China's four provincial-level municipalities, and the only one in the less densely populated western half of China.
		Chongqing is also home to Asia's largest aluminum plant, South West Aluminium, which rolled out 213,000 tonnes of finished products in 2004 - for companies engaged in building materials, printing, electrical appliances, aerospace, packaging, and vehicle production [4].
	chongqing.quickseek.com (2252 words)

	World War II - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Atomic weapons, jet aircraft, rockets and radar, the blitzkrieg, or "lightning war", the massive use of tanks, submarines, torpedo bombers and destroyer/tanker formations, are only a few of many wartime inventions and new tactics that changed the face of the conflict.
		During the war the Germans produced various Glide bomb weapons, which were the first smart bombs; the V-1 flying bomb, which was the first cruise missile weapon; and the V-2 rocket, the first ballistic missile weapon.
		Allied strategic bombing, including the firestorm bombing of Japanese and German cities including Tokyo, Hamburg and Dresden by Anglo-American forces and the American atomic bombing of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, likely killed over 400,000 German civilians and between 350,000 and 500,000 Japanese.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/w/o/r/World_War_II_d045.html (9907 words)

	WWII Chongqing bombing victims sue Japanese govt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Some Chinese victims or family members of victims of Chongqing bombings between 1938 and 1943 hold a banner in front of a law office in Tokyo, capital of Japan March 30, 2006.
		Zheng Youyu (1st R), representative of Chinese victims of Chongqing bombings between 1938 and 1943 condemns Japanese army at a law office in Tokyo, capital of Japan, March 30, 2006.
		The Japanese army indiscriminately bombed Chongqing and nearby Leshan, Chengdu of the Sichuan province between 1938 and 1943.
	en.ce.cn /World/Asia-Pacific/200603/31/t20060331_6558418.shtml (285 words)

	Chongqing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		During the war, a lot of factories, univerisities from easter China were moved to Chongqing and surrounding areas, transforming it from a inland port to a heavy-industrial city.
		Chongqing is rich in natural resources, with more than 40 kinds of minerals.
		Three Gorges Dam, Chongqing is planned to be the beachhead for the development of the western part of the country.
	ww.chennaivision.com /c/Chongqing.asp (1531 words)

	Chongqing, China
		Chongqing lies at the confluence of the Yangzi and Jialingjiang Rivers, centered on a hilly peninsula encircled by the rivers, in what was formerly the eastern part of Sichuan Province.
		Chongqing traces its ancient history all the way back to the 13th century BC, when it was the capital of the Ba kingdom, with a distinctive local culture contemporary with the Shang.
		After Nanjing fell in 1937, Chongqing became the wartime capital of the Kuomintang regime from 1938 on, and a focus for refugees and bombing raids that destroyed most of the city’s historical fabric.
	www.chinatour.com /attraction/chongqing.htm (1096 words)

	Chongqing Travel
		If other major cities in China are undergoing face-lifts, Chongqing is having radical reconstructive surgery: In 1997, it became the fourth city to achieve the status of municipality (after Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai).
		Chongqing is the biggest metropolitan area in the world (surpassing Tokyo); it's got the world's biggest dam site downriver; it's in the midst of building the world's tallest skyscraper (the Chongqing Tower); and a 17-station monorail system will be up and running in 2005 (not a record breaker, but no mean feat).
		Chongqing's pleasures are modest, but there's enough here to make a 2- or 3-day stay enjoyable.
	www.travellodge.info /cityattraction/chongqing.htm (345 words)

	Pacific War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gasoline and high explosive bombs were undefended for only a few minutes; he figured in five minutes his planes would be launched and the risk would pass.
		Towards the end of the war as the role of strategic bombing became more important, a new command for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific was created to oversee all US strategic bombing in the hemisphere, under USAAF General Curtis LeMay.
		To shock the Emperor into surrender, the US attacked two cities with nuclear weapons; these were a well-kept secret until August 6, when Hiroshima was destroyed with a single atomic bomb, as was Nagasaki on August 9.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_War (5759 words)

	Palin's Travels: Chongqing, China, Full Circle, Day 67
		Until the 1930s, when Chongqing had a piped supply, all the water used in the city had to be carried up these steps in buckets.
		Alongside the modern city there are still streets and alleyways where old two-storey ochre-washed houses survive, patched and peeling, the holes in the daub and wattle plaster exposing their wooden frames as though they're slowly dying of hunger.
		The Japanese bombed the city with ruthless persistence between 1939 and 1941, when Chiang Kai-shek and his anti-communist Kuomintang Nationalist Army set up their headquarters here.
	www.palinstravels.co.uk /book-834&from=photoindex-14-6 (347 words)

	Firebombing - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to create a firestorm in the target city.
		This bombing technique was as effective as the atomic bombs used against Japanese cities toward the end of World War II.
		Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, is based significantly on the firebombing of Dresden, Germany.
	firebombing.quickseek.com (113 words)

	Film of Japanese Bombings Discovered in Chongqing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Film footage used by Chinese and foreign journalists to record Japanese bombings of Chongqing Municipality in southwest China about 60 years ago has been discovered here.
		Li Hua, deputy director of the Chongqing Cultural Bureau, said the newly discovered film, which runs for six hours, is the most detailed film record of the Japanese bombings of the city during the 1930s and 1940s.
		On June 5, 1941 alone, about 2,500 residents who had taken shelter from the bombing in a tunnel in downtown Chongqing were suffocated to death.
	english1.people.com.cn /english/200106/06/eng20010606_71881.html (251 words)

	Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		But Chinese courts also had jurisdiction over the claims and could hand down more fair verdicts -- by trial in absentia if necessary, Tong was quoted as saying, adding the number of the lawsuits might jump due to the lower cost.
		Last week, a group of 40 Chinese who say they were wounded or lost relatives as a result of Japanese bombing of Chongqing sued the Japanese government in Japan, as a court turned down another suit by 45 Chinese who were taken to Japan for forced labor during the war.
		Bilateral ties are at their lowest in decades, particularly due to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine honoring the country's 2.5 million war dead along with convicted war criminals, and present-day rivalry for regional influence and resources.
	www.longislandpress.com /reuters/1_ds_141676.php (541 words)

	Terror bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Other cities was bombed like Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Zaragoza, Malaga, Bilbao, Alicante, Valladolid, with a lot of died.
		Modern weapons however still cause collateral damage and there is still a high percentage of 'dumb' bombs for example used in Iraq and Afghanistan (around 30% [1][2]).
		Protection of Civilian Populations Against Bombing From the Air in Case of War, Unanimous resolution of the League of Nations Assembly, 30 September 1938, verified 2005-02-26
	en.orangehedgehog.com /content/Terror_bombing (2154 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Sculpture exhibition on anti-Japanese war opened in Chongqing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Visitors view a sculpture in an exhibition, opened July 30, 2005 in Chongqing, southwest China.
		Nearly 80 sculptures were displayed in the five-day exhibition depicting the Chinese people's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggressions in 1937-45, a key part of the world anti-Fascist war.
		Yuan Yongzhen (in wheelchair), a 91-year-old survivor of Japan's bombing of Chongqing during China's Anti-Japanese War, tells of atrocities committed by Japanese invading troops, beside a sculpture in an exhibition, opened July 30, 2005 in Chongqing, southwest China.
	english1.peopledaily.com.cn /200507/31/print20050731_199426.html (102 words)

	China & The World Cultual Exchange www.ZWWHJL.com.cn / www.ZWWHJL.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		After more than four years of preparation and construction, the Three Gorges Museum, with some ten thousand collections and occupying 42,500 square meters, opened this June to collect, study and showcase history and culture in Chongqing and surrounding Three Gorges areas.
		On the occasion of the museum's opening, the staff reporter interviewed historian Wang Chuanping and archeologist Liu Yuchuan who led the preparation of the museum.
		For example, the semi-panorama exhibition showcases the Japanese soldiers' bombing on Chongqing, revoking visitors' expectation for peace.
	www.zwwhjl.com.cn /news/e4.asp?articleid=983 (708 words)

	Bombing of Chongqing - China-related Topics BM-BP - China-Related Topics
		Bombing of Chongqing - China-related Topics BM-BP - China-Related Topics
		The Bombing of Chongqing (February 18 1938 - August 23 1943) was a JapanJapanese strategic bombing campaign against the ChinaChinese provisional capital of Chongqing that lasted 5 1/2 years.
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	Chongqing - Enpsychlopedia
		Chongqing (Simplified Chinese: {{{1{{{s}}}}}}; Traditional Chinese: {{{t重慶}}}; Pinyin: {{{pChóngqìng}}}; Wade-Giles: Ch'ung-ch'ing; Postal System Pinyin: Chungking) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic of China's four provincial-level municipalities, and the only one in the less densely populated western half of China.
		The municipality of Chongqing has a population of 32,355,000 (2004), most of them living outside the urban area of Chongqing proper, over hundreds of square miles of farmland.
		This page was last modified 19:59, 3 April 2006.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Chongqing (1898 words)

	Sichuan invasion - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The loss of Guadalcanal in November further damaged the Japanese strategic position, and made it impossible for them to proceed with the Sichuan Invasion as planned.
		After the Japanese airforce gained air superiority, cities like Chongqing were terror-bombed to intimidate the population and to destroy infrastructure.
		This objective was not achieved, but did inflict massive civilian casualties.
	szechwaninvasion.quickseek.com (615 words)

	RESISTANCE WARS -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
		Today, Japanese cabinets, clinging to the notion of an Atomic bomb victim (victims numbering 210,000), still make insincere apologies to Asian countries for their wartime crimes, including the infamous Rape of Nanking (victims numbering 340,000), Fatigue Bombing of Chongqing, germ warfare, guinea pig experiments [by Unit 731] and 'comfort women'.
		Frank E. Smitha mentioned "Japanese using their navy guns, aircraft, incendiary bombs and bombing China's capital, Nanjing." Japanese indiscriminate bombing destroyed Dong Zhujun's factory which was said to be the first woman enterprise in Shanghai.
		Being bombed by Japanese planes repeatedly, Chinese fought on to last 4 wounded soldiers who shot each other to commit suicide at the last moment.
	www.uglychinese.org /war.htm (12255 words)

	WWII Chongqing bombing victims sue Japanese govt - China - News Brief - Newsgd
		WWII Chongqing bombing victims sue Japanese govt - China - News Brief - Newsgd
		Sino-Japanese relations hard to develop if shrine issue not resolved, says premier
		Some Chinese victims or family members of victims of Chongqing bombings between 1938 and 1943 hold posters in front of a law office in Tokyo, capital of Japan March 30, 2006.
	www.newsgd.com /news/china1/200603310010.htm (500 words)

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